Mediocrity: the enemy of growth.

Mediocrity is the enemy of growth and fulfillment, yet everyone seems to be pursuing it.

We (including me) are so scared to do anything outside the status quo, that we go on doing the things we complain about and don't really like doing. We work our jobs we sort of like, we attend family and church functions with people we don't really know, we buy expensive houses and cars just maintain and obsess over them. Basically, we spend our whole lives trying to fill a hole within ourselves with nothing that will actually fill it.

If we're all asked to take a survey, most would respond that money is not the key to happiness. It would show that our top priorities do not include our jobs and we're not attached to the bigger physical items we own. But, then we obsess over how much money we make, complain about our jobs (yet spend the majority of our time there), and spend our weekends cleaning houses and waxing our cars.

We say "Oh, that's too bad that that person has cancer" or "those orphans in Africa sure have it rough." We silently judge those who are poor, have broken families, no college education, and live on that side of town.

The majority of folks I know are professing christians and the majority of people I know rarely do anything beyond give a little money to the church they attend. There is physical, emotional, and spiritual poverty everywhere and I don't think we believe Jesus when he talks about helping 'the least of these.' We pass our silent judgement and we're on our way - back to our comfort zones. We focus on Iowa football, who we're partying with this weekend, laying low and grinding our way through the work week. We have the thing in our lives that we should be most passionate about - Jesus. Yet, we just aren't.

I know it starts with me - the only person I can do anything about. And that's half my frustration, I am the person that I complain about. But sometimes, I can't help but vent about the rest of us.