A little interruption to the resolutions…

Or maybe this actually fits right in there…

Something to give some clarification to some of the things wrecking me right now…

• The state of the complacent American church – How can we sit and ignore things going on all around us?  Does the stained glass and pipe organs and ritual, changed last in 1967, so effectively block out the cries of those on the street?  Aren’t we able to translate our church language into something able to be understood by the generations of today?  Jesus came for the sick not the healthy; what would He say of our church today?  Would He call us all Pharisees?  A brood of vipers… A bunch of white-washed tombs…
• Going hand-in-hand with that – the state of poverty in the world and the reticence of our population to see it, let alone the Church stepping up, taking its rightful responsibility and showing the love of Jesus through taking care of the people.  Weren’t we called to do that?  Does our own comfort really cause us to ignore these cries as well?
• Human trafficking - How can this continue?  I think of my own children kidnapped and forced into an unspeakable atrocity of a life, my blood boils, I want to hurt someone.  Yet, in the midst of this we sweep the whole issue under the rug… It’s not our children so why care or pay anything for any of this?

All of these tragedies crowd my mind and cause me unrest.  Where can my family and I be the hands of Jesus in all of this?