Earth: Population 100
It's tough to get personal about issues effecting humanity, when were talking about humanity in terms of "billions." Sometimes, it helps to shrink things down a bit.... Grace and Peace, Raffi
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Benjamin Button, George Francis, and Random Musings on Life and Death
"What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." - James 4:14 I never liked that snippet of Scripture. Don't get me wrong, I get what James is trying to say in the larger context of verses 13-15 . It's just that I've heard the "mist" part taken out of context and used to imply that earthly life is trivial. I'm not sure how anyone can read the entire biblical narrative, Genesis, the Gospels, et al., and conclude that earthly life is trivial. Last night, I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , the new Brad Pitt movie based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man who is born old and grows progressively younger (on the outside). This morning, I read that George Francis , the oldest man in the U.S., died on Saturday at the ripe old age of 112. In the larger scope of things, neither the fictitious life of Benjamin Buttons nor the very real life of George Francis were very significant. In fact, had it no...
Incoherent Ramblings That Might or Might Not Have Something to Say About Jesus and Affirmative Action...You Decide
Who matters more? I think everyone mattered equally to Jesus. It might not seem that way at first glance. At first glance, it seems like the poor, the downtrodden, the widows, the sinners, the victims and the sick actually mattered more to Him. I don't think so. I think society was (and is) so used to thinking that the poor, the downtrodden, etc., mattered less that Jesus had to make a conscious effort to shock the system, to balance the scales. When the scales are imbalanced, you gotta put more weight on the light end to reach an equilibrium. But there's every reason to believe that Jesus loved the healthy as much as the sick, the rich as much as the poor. He just had to express that love in a different way. That's always the case, isn't it? Love is love, but it must be expressed in different ways in different contexts. One can love two siblings equally; the one who's got it all together, loving family, beautiful kids...and the one who just got raped. Same quantu...