Choose Wisely

What2Say2Day? I'm watching a movie called "The Swing Vote" with Kevin Costner. It's a story that takes a tongue-in-cheek look at how the candidates for President have to sway a single voter's mind so he votes for them. It goes over the top with each candidate doing and saying anything just to get that vote. Oh, and by the way, Kevin Costner's character, Bud, hasn't a single clue on what's going on in the country. In one scene he's asked if he's pro-choice or pro-life to which his response is, "well everyone should have a choice, right?". The follow up question was, "So you uphold Roe vs. Wade?" To which he replies, "I dunno". He's then asked, "So you're pro-life"? To which he responds, "Well, who isn't." The candidates then go on an all out effort to say they are against abortion. Watching this movie makes me think about what is really important in our lives, or if we even know what's important in our lives. In general, I think we are getting caught up in a world where we've forgotten what's important. Are any of these on your list of important things: God, family, friends and (as the bible put it) the widows and orphans and outcasts of society. Did you notice the one thing missing from the list - you. I'm not saying you aren't important, please don't get me wrong. What I'm saying is we're quickly putting ourselves to the top of our list, pushing the others to a distant second, or third, or fourth. In the movie the incumbent President has a private moment with Bud and says to him, "In our lives we have to pick what's important to us and fight for it." I guess we just have to choose what's important.