You Can't Always Get What You Want
Author Sarah Peck asserts that one of the biggest lies we are constantly being told in our current culture is that we "can have everything we want." Instinctively, we know this is a lie, but it's incredibly difficult to push back against the powerful narrative this lie creates. In the cult movie Fight Club, Brad Pitt's character, anarchist Tyler Durden, offers an alternative to the greed and consumption of our dominant culture. He tells a group of dissatisfied men: "You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet." Durden's assessment might have been right on point, but his solution (anarchy) was not exactly the answer. It's not enough to simply dismantle the system, to throw a brick through a window. You need a better story. In my devotional reading today I read the following passage: "Now there...