Heath Clark
a ride through the mind of a mindless man

Suburbia

By Heath
Ok so tonight after work I went straight to Atlanta Bread Company. This place is quickly becoming office space for me.

So while sitting here doing some work and some reading (mostly reading) and listening to Pandora (a lot of Jazz music) I watched people.

I live in Warner Robins the poster city for a modern boomtown. Suburbia at its pinnacle. We have as many strip malls as churches which means we have more Mexican restaurants than Methodist churches and more Subways than Baptist. Everyone lives in their own little world. There is no local downtown area to flock to so we spread out to one of the "it" places...Atlanta Bread Company being one of them.

It's a city without a distinct personality. If it does have a personality it's transient. People are passing through. Until they are redeployed or their company moves them. Slowly there is some semblance of roots taking hold and character being developed. The people who grew up here and moved away for college are starting to come back and raise their families here.

So here is what I see in Warner Robins A Harvest. People really wanting meaning, community, and life. They want God...they Need God and Jesus died to give Warner Robins a God to worship and a Community worship Him with.

Suburbia...it's a place where disconnect happens. It's a place where harvest is going to happen.

Loving My City!!!
 

2 comments so far.

  1. keith July 17, 2008 at 10:16 PM
    I don't know if you have seen these blogs, but I think they are good and fitting for the burbs...
    http://thesubtext.org/
    http://mattadair.typepad.com/
  2. Greg Wood July 18, 2008 at 10:09 PM
    Amen! Send the harvesters Lord!

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