Today... my first real journal-like entry.
I was trying to decide this morning if this should be first of the day thoughts or whether I should wait until later. I get much more emotional when I'm tired, so that isn't always good. I didn't really have anything to say this morning, so here I am... after a nap, after the day, before the very exhausted evening.
The news that I do hear is filled with Nazi's and terror groups and Charlottesville. On Facebook there are lots of posts on who to blame, with the liberal-owned media always trying to blame Trump and other Republicans so they can keep government from solving problems. The conservatives... I haven't decided about them yet. We are in a war of money sources I can't begin to understand.
I just want the earth to be made better so all of us can survive. I want poor people to get things they need to find their own dreams. I want prisons to help people to change instead of making them worse. I want Christians and Jews to be protected from the growing anti-God perspectives. It isn't easy to watch good people suffer, for any reason. Hidden hatred is hard to fight.
America's freedoms have been unique in the history of the world, but there is always the minority that doesn't get their way... no matter what the topic is. Free speech is difficult to endure when the words aren't what we want to hear. Do people have a right to do what we don't agree with?
Iran is a sovereign country... they have a right to pursue their goals.
North Korea is a sovereign country... they have a right to pursue their goals.
We don't like their goals. We want to stop them from reaching them.
How do people, how do countries, live with different goals?
This is just as essential a question when Nazi supporters utilize their free speech in America as it is when the countries who inhabit the same earth have opposing goals that include killing others, innocent others.
So how do we live together without taking away the rights of someone else?
I don't know... it may not be possible.
We can only find some kind of order with majority rule, which we call a democracy, and the rule of law, and public safety. Those who lose any fight have to submit to the authority of the ones who won, willingly. We have also seen that doesn't work either... the fight just changes. Problems never get solved. We all suffer because of the constant power struggles.
These are the things I think about and seek God for answers.
What do you seek God about?
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
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