Thanksgiving 2014
These are some crazy tumultuous times indeed! What is there to give thanks for? Great convulsions of pain, sorrow, indignation, despair, and violence explode from the earth. Such things are what life in a sinful and fallen world show. Hope still emerges for us all. God never sleeps nor slumbers. The second advent of Jesus Christ remains, and there will be a day when all things will be set to right. But, who is innocent? Who can escape the judgment to come? Do unto others as you would have them do to you. Give an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth. If the rightness of reciprocity and justice is true, then everyone at some point must come to grips with just what offenses they have committed against the other, and the number of eyes and teeth that need to be extracted. It’s easy to point the finger to an institution or a person and say, “They’re the problem,” without ever the thought: “Wait a minute, I’m the problem.” The old three fingers pointing back cliché. Judgment Day is c