Love

So many excuses in the name of busyness

What happened to Love?

Under pressure, stress, "busyness", how has it affect the way we treat others?

John 13:35
"By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

People are affected by the environment more than they think they are.

People's behaviour is guided by environmental cues. If you leave something unattended to, they will think that is the norm.

The famous broken window analogy:


“Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it's unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside.
Or consider a sidewalk. Some litter accumulates. Soon, more litter accumulates. Eventually, people even start leaving bags of trash from take-out restaurants there or breaking into cars.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows

No matter how good a person is, environmental cues will affect behaviour. How then should we approach this problem?? CHANGE THE ENVIRONMENT!


A successful strategy for preventing vandalism, say the book's authors, is to fix the problems when they are small. Repair the broken windows within a short time, say, a day or a week, and the tendency is that vandals are much less likely to break more windows or do further damage. Clean up the sidewalk every day, and the tendency is for litter not to accumulate (or for the rate of littering to be much less). Problems do not escalate and thus respectable residents do not flee a neighborhood.