Greedy or Opportunistic?

Sometime back I decided that greed takes many forms and one of them is whenever someone passes you up with excessive speed or reckless driving. Then a few days ago a woman in a vehicle in front of me when around a slower moving vehicle that had cut her off (an elderly man was driving) and it made me think deeper on this subject. Was she being greedy by going around this vehicle in an effort to get somewhere faster? I decided no, she was not. I have come to the conclusion that in these scenario's the fine line between greed and opportunity is this: If by passing someone you cause harm or possible harm you are being greedy, whereas if you pass them with no ill consequences to them or anyone else you are being opportunistic. I know that this may sound trivial but it truly is not. I have a deep belief in God and I am trying to do the right things in life. I was driving along the other day when this vehicle was in such a big hurry on the freeway that because the lane he continued to drive in was ending he caused a lot of problems when he finally moved into the lane that continued on. I decided he was being greedy. Then, when the woman I spoke of earlier made her pass I said she too was greedy but thought more on it. I decided that I too would have done the same as her had I been in that situation and therefore that would have made me greedy. I am sure this makes it seem like I am trying to get out of being hypocritical and that is true but in a the right way. I wanted to get to the bottom as to what constituted greed vs opportunity in this and I feel I did that. I hope to only pass when opportunity presents itself and not endanger others by being greedy. This is not only for driving but presents as a metaphor for many other things in life.

I have an ongoing and constant dialogue with God, trying to understand His plan for me and what I need to do to fulfil that plan. While pursuing that never-ending quest I from time to time wonder about some of the same things that religious scholars have been trying to figure out for centuries. I try to look at it with a simple point of view while attempting to reconcile it with science. How does science and the search for logical reasons for why we are here fit in with God's plan? The other day I was contemplating the statement that God built the Universe in six days and rested on the seventh when it occurred to me that yes, he did build it in six days and yes, the world and universe is billions of years old. This is because I answered a couple of questions. The first was, what is a day? A day is the word we use to represent the unit of time that it takes for our planet earth to rotate on its axis. Since God made the whole universe, why can't His day be the amount of time it takes for the universe to rotate on its axis? Which for us is many billions of years but is just one day for Him.Since a "year" is what we call the unit of time that it takes our planet to make one trip around our Sun, His "year" would be the amount of time it takes for the Universe to make one trip around its space. In our arrogant way of thinking we always assume that time references are based upon our place in the Universe instead of thinking of the Universe as a whole. If we are going to believe that God made the whole universe, then we must take the whole universe into account. We must start thinking in a larger sense than in the confines of ourselves and our little planet here. If everything in the universe was created by Him, then we should include everything in the universe when think about Him. I am not a theologian but I do believe what I believe.

I bought some gasoline for my van a few days ago and did something for the first time in my life. I paid more than $3 per gallon for it. I know it has been above that price in other parts of the country before, and much higher than that for many years in other countries, but this is Texas, the heart of oil in this country. I have to move closer to work and get me a vehicle that achieves much better fuel economy. If I had my way, I would change jobs, live and work along the electric train in Dallas and only drive my van on weekends when I left the city. Hey, isn't that what they do in New York? Maybe they are on to something there after all. Just cannot make enough money in the smaller cities that are not attached to a major metroplex and I cannot afford to purchase a car right now. That is no one's fault but my own because of the choices I have made in life, but it is what it is.