what is your mindset??

passage from an amazing book that gabriel bought for me on our date night last night... i read 1/2 the book in 2 nights...yes... it's that good... i'd love to hear some comments on this one ;)

"we live in a world that values convenience over permanence.  Societal attitudes are vastly different today than in the days of the 1950's television show I love Lucy.  We have temporary licenses, temporary visas, and temporary addresses.  We expect instant cash, fast food, quick fixes, and instant great sex.  We purchase disposable goods and refundable merchandise.  We walk up, drive through, and exit, drive through door on the left.  We abhor suffering, not only for the pain it brings, but for the inconvenience.  The only thing worse than having an ailment we can't numb is standing in line for the five whole minutes to fill a prescription!  We live in a world that devalues promises.  "No new taxes," politicians pledge.  "Satisfaction Guaranteed!"  advertisements announce.  Marketing copy promises products will be "long-lasting and durable."  We've been disappointed so many times in so many ways by broken promises that we no longer expect promises to be honored.  As a result, we are skeptical and distrustful of promises made to us and disloyal to the promises we make to others.  We live in world that views happiness as a "right. "  People emerged from the Great Depression with an attitude of long-suffering and forbearance.  They'd experience the worst of times, and while they yearned for happiness they did not see happiness as something owed to them.  Today the fast-track, upwardly mobile society in which we live has produced a breed of impatient people demanding immediate gratification.  We've somehow translated our constitutional right to pursue happiness as the right to possess happiness.  Advertising slogans daily reinforce this notion.  You deserve a break today. " "If it feels good, do it." "Pamper yourself.. you are worth it."  In a society that devalues permanence, distrust promises, and demands happiness, the prevailing mind-set toward things is if it's old, throw it away.  If it's not convenient, forget it.  If it's promised, don't expect  it.  If it makes you happy, use it.  Unfortunately, this thinking has infected our attitude toward relationships.  A husband throws away his marriage because it has grown old.  A wife says, "Forget it," because loving her husband has become inconvenient.  We break promises and justify divorce and extramarital affairs with thoughts such as, I have a right to be happy.  I have a right to be understand and to have my needs met.   We need to reject the mindset of disposable relationships, empty promises, and self-centered thinking and embrace God's mind-set of permanence, faithfulness, and Christ-centered living.