On a recent trip back to the my home land, I was waiting in a parking lot for my Mom to come out of the store. I noticed that average, and every day people, who looked altogether upstanding, would commonly leave their shopping carts in the parking lot rather than park them in a cart corral.
Now, I'm sure that everyone that shops at a super market are perfectly aware of the hazards of run-away shopping carts. It could be their own vehicle that's damaged, and yet that is no deterrent.
As I watched cart after cart left in the lot to just roll away, it occurred to me that that level of iniquity in a society could be measured by the number of shopping carts left unattended in a parking lot.
It also put me in mind of a passage included in Christ's exposition on the Last Days.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. -- Matt 24:12
