Recycling and Beyond

Maura just drew my attention to waste recycling. We don't have to separate plastics from paper, but family not three miles away have to separate them. And I started thinking.
The European Union, in Brussels, establishes the standards, and then attempts to enforce them, but some of us have rather primitive ideas of what recycling is all about, while I am sure the Dutch have been recycling everything, very methodically, for many years. Then we have new members, and Brussels must have to decide at what level they are, and how long they need to get up to speed. And this is just recycling. What about roads? Do they need financial help, and expertise? The whole thing seems endless. The biggest problem may be deciding whether countries can be admitted at all, and that is where Turkey is at now. Can Europe tolerate a member which is trying hard to be an upstanding lay state, while part of the population wants it to profess its Islamic faith?
I go from there to our heavenly Father. He has billions of us, and he alone knows how many of us are trying to go off on our own. It reminds me of a young mother with any number of toddlers greater than one,each determined to explore the world on their own terms.
I guess it will all sort itself out in the end.