All right, yes I do.
Eddie Diaz, age 26, died unnecessarily by falling under a train. Why?
Witnesses told police that Diaz realized he left his cellphone on a bench as the train left the station. Diaz then broke the glass of the emergency safety mechanism, pulled the emergency stop lever and exited through the front passenger door, police said.
What does this say about Mr. Diaz and his priorities? More than that, what does it say about the society we’ve fashioned for ourselves, that a person would come to see something so insignificant as worth his life?
- Young people in Chicago shoot each other over a pair of gym shoes.
- Women choose to kill their unborn child in favor of a relationship, career, or their “freedom.”
- Men and women divorce after decades of marriage because the thrill is gone.
- People of all ages abuse drugs and alcohol as a means to cope with life’s stresses.
As a species and a culture, our selfishness is staggering. Ironically, it’s that very selfishness that militates most against our own good and well-being.
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.¹
¹ Eph 4:22-24 NIV
Architecture student Manuel Dominguez’s masters thesis is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is!
