Love Truth Blog

Well, 2011 has come and gone, and I’d say it was one wild roller coaster ride of a year. Around the Middle East, starting in Egypt, people took to the streets in protests, seeking social reforms in their own homeland. Even in the United States the Occupy movement with its “We are the 99%” slogan had significant world impact. Whether or not one agrees with the ideologies set forth by the protestors, all must concede they got the world’s attention this year. The Tohoku earthquake that gave rise to a tsunami that devastated the coastal towns of Japan, which also caused a number of nuclear accident and a meltdown at the Fukushima Power Plant can be counted among those world events that leaves one speechless and perplexed of the unspeakable horror that just took place. Such events remind us of our own mortality and just how fragile life can be. Is not the very creation groaning in its bondage to sin and yearning for the day it shall be set free (Rm. 8:18-25; Rev. 21:1-9). Hmm…I wonder? ...

I think Bono captured—eerily foreshadowed—the spirit of the first decade of the 21st century singing… The heart is a bloom, shoots up through the stony ground But there’s no room, no space to rent in this town You’re out of luck and the reason that you had to care The traffic is stuck and you’re not moving anywhere You thought you’d found a friend to take you out of this place Someone you can lend a hand in return for grace It’s a beautiful day the sky falls And you feel like it’s a beautiful day It’s a beautiful day Don’t let it get away Melancholic yet still always finding something beautiful in the moment—It’s a beautiful day…don’t let it get away.” And this decade certainly, at least from where I am sitting, had a hefty dose of this paradox. We had crashes…9/11, Enron, Shuttle Columbia, Katrina, wars in Afghanistan & Iraq (at least for America), and the Wall Street crash. Yet, it all this, people in general still yearn change for the better. CD recordings are going the way of t...