It is Thursday... finally. :-)
Today was a household chores kind of day...
Did anyone see the news story about the black man being beat up by the police for jaywalking? I saw it on Lester Holt's news program here in Oregon... sometimes they have "western editions" so I don't know if this was one of those. The police cam footage was hidden away until now... and the policeman who was "training" a new policeman got fired. I hope he gets a lot of money! (The black man.) He was reported to be walking home from his job after a long shift.
It's hard to know about video these days... it is so easy to create, at home, anywhere, by anyone. It can happen in one place and be shared as being in another place. It could be 15 years old, we wouldn't know it.
This is the growing problem when the society we live in doesn't want the boundaries of godliness... It is becoming a different world. We always have problems because human nature is what it is... without GOD as the guiding force of our decisions, there is no boundary, people have nothing to stop them from doing things that hurt others, on purpose.
Technology is deceptive. We think of it as being the greatest addition to our lives in the history of Man. It is also the most dangerous and destructive, in the wrong hands and heart and mind.
I hope we can find a way through this...
I have been praying for some time about writing to Dylann Roof, the young man who killed a lot of black people in a church in South Carolina. I decided to write him this week. In looking for his mailing address, I explored some of the articles written about him. It was difficult to see the things that made him what he became, how his family was also traumatized. What has changed in our world to make killing the solution for our pain? We need to figure it out. It is horrible what he chose to do, and it is horrible what pushed him into doing it. Society had 21 years to care, no one did. He brought himself to our attention in the only way he knew. We are just as much to blame as he is.
Well, that is probably not going to go over well. It is much easier to blame these kids who seem to focus on this violence as a solution to their problems. Tragedy is not something any parent or reasonable person wants to be involved in. Blaming guns is not the solution either. It is a societal problem, a moral problem, a broken family problem, a broken society problem, a human problem... making a law will make some people feel better, but it won't make the problem go away. Only a real relationship with GOD, through Jesus Christ, through salvation, will change the heart and mind and life... that is the permanent solution we need.
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
work2gather.us
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May GOD help us to care about each other. Amen.
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