Although we have appointment books and all types of scheduling software, So much in life is not really planned, but occurs because events create participants and witnesses. With camera in hand this generation is off searching for something to see, something to preserve. Some city blocks and some modern ideas are guarded and ruled by Milton’s Satan, leaving one mind and trying to annex another with rhetoric, ignorance, fear. Cameras can only capture what the lens sees.
Modern life rewrites the rules, creates new victims.
This is a time when prayer, reflection are needed.
We hear about riots in London. We see the images of buildings burning, of broken glass. We hear and see images of shops being looted. I wonder why did this happen. What is happening within the secular world which would encourage such behavior to occur.
Each day things happen. People do good things. People do bad things. How we interact with them is important. Do we try to imitate the good or the bad behavior that we witness? Do we encourage others to do good, to be charitable and understanding? Is it easier to make pithy rude comments instead of showing real honest compassion and mercy?
Technology might be the detour on our road to God. Too much unfiltered information is being presented to us. Too little Christian thought, too little Catholic ideas are being shared. Technology performs many of the tasks that a neighbor or a friend used to do. Humans need to learn how to interact with each other, how to interact with God.
As Christians we are reminded again and again about kindness, how we all need to share it, to feel it. Sometimes sharing kindness is almost impossible because of circumstances, because of what and how we allow ourselves to feel. Did the debt ceiling uncertainty make you feel angst, angry? How do you act when the Redskins lose? What do you do when another cuts you off?
We must always be alert, always be looking for God, always be looking to be a servant for God.
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