Strange Juxtapositions

Last updated on: November 6, 2009 at 12:55 am by Richard Dahlstrom

Strange Juxtapositions 2009-11-06T00:55:30-07:00 Richard Dahlstrom

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The room from which I’m writing right now in Canada looks south. The beauty out the bay window is more than stunning; the beauty almost makes me ache. Crisp golden leaves dancing in the wind as clouds envelope Vancouver island to the east, and waves whitecap the sound, while the other sound is rain hitting the window.

Then I open my computer to post, and right after I’m finished posting about his beauty, and the good God behind it, I read the news of the shootings at Fort Hood. I don’t know details, other than twelve dead, but I’m shaken from this isolated island of peace and sanity, reminded that creation groans, and that darkened hearts open fire. I won’t go into a tirade about war because I happen to believe there’s a time and place for everything (Ecclesiastes 3), but I’ll say this much: Behind the curtain of patriotism, and behind the bravado of ‘will to win’ and all that entails, men and women are walking through hell for this ‘objective’. I don’t know answers, so don’t misread me. I’m not sitting in judgement on our previous president or our present one. But my God… we need wisdom, and even more important than that, we need the humility to recognize the we need wisdom.

Where does this humility come from? It comes from seeing. I hope, I pray, our leaders will look hard; hard enough to see what they don’t know. Only then will they look for new wisdom, and I thoroughly believe that it’s the new wisdom, which isn’t really new at all, that we need as a nation right now – God help us. Maranatha.

It’s still lovely outside – but this juxtaposition of beauty and tragedy? I want to close the blinds OR turn off the news. And yet, this is our world, and I pray we’ll learn to live here, better and better.

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