Looks like everybody I know is scared. Everybody I know is worried about the economy, poilitics, the diviseness--the negativism that seems to have settled on almost everyone like a brain fog. Couple this with enormous grief that we all carry. It is hard just to get out of bed knowing what the awaiting TV will rant on and on and on.
I love the words of Paul written in a whole lot of hard times. He wrote from the heart: " We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down but not destroyed..." (Still) we do not lose heart..." "...because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal." (II Corinthians 4. 8-9; 16, 18)
Once at Georgetown, Kentucky I remember Alex Haley, the incredible writer telling the story of his roots. And somewhere in that speech he said that when he was a little black boy crying at the kitchen table his Grandmother came close and said: "Alex, we don't know when Jesus will come but he will always come on time."
This is what I keep trying to remember when everything around me seems chaotic.
--Roger Lovette / rogerlovette.blogspot.com
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