Let the nations know that they are but men. — Psalm 9:20. Well technically they are but men and women, but you get David’s point. It has always bothered me that we assume someone is our enemy or evil because of their nationality, when in truth those who wish us harm or death are a select…
Month: January 2020
Injustice Requires Our Attention and Response
What do we do when we see or hear of an injustice? Everyone these days recognizes the injustice of slavery, the Holocaust, the Spanish Inquisition, etc., and I think most of us see injustices of different degrees of magnitude in current times. What we must ask ourselves when we see or hear of an injustice…
My Shield Is With God
My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. — Psalm 7:10. I’m not sure I’m “upright in heart,” but I think all of us feel the need for a little protection every now and then. The news is full of the rumblings of war, planes are falling from the sky, and in each…
Pay Attention To The World
Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world. — Susan Sontag. Susan was answering a question about what writers should do, but I think her advise about attention to the world goes much further than writers. As I compose my list of resolutions for 2020 and beyond, “paying attention to the world”…
Happy New Decade
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier’…” — Alfred Lord Tennyson. The theme of my New Year’s Resolutions this year will be “it will be happier.” Not that 2019 was an unhappy year, in fact it was a very good year, but there is nothing wrong with hoping…