occupied

Today I preached on being occupied by the Sprit. While preaching I talked about how most Americans are so occupied with other stuff that we can't hear the Spirit. In Gal 5:16 it says to be occupied by the Spirit. Maybe we must must stop being occupied first.
Most of America is occupied by our own “culture”, that is no really no culture at all. In this "culture" we pay an outrageous price for burnt coffee and call it good. We like wine that taste like wood instead of grapes. We feel it is our right to drive slow in the fast lane because it’s a free country. We think that a good restaurant is a place that serves food from a different country because we can’t make any good food here. We think that our cities should be replaced with malls and movie theaters, as if the American dream can only live in the suburbs. We have redefined the word “friend” to someone that wants to read our worthless status updates on facebook. We escape reality by watching someone else’s life on TV and calling it entertainment. We vote for who we want to be the next American idol but forget to vote for our local representatives who make the laws by which we live. We send our kids to public school to be educated but are afraid to fire bad teachers because it might hurt our economy. We listen to our ipod while we ski, ride or study and wonder why no one cares about the world around us. We think that the internet ought to be warp speed fast on our phone so we can watch a video of a cat using the toilet on youtube. We have become the most worthless occupied culture on earth!