World Gone Wild

I feel pounded on; beat up and bruised... it's been a very bad week.  It is getting increasingly hard to find delight in a world that seems to be imploding on itself.  The news reports are filled with wars and devastation; killings and catastrophes.  How do you not let it affect you?  How do you not fall on your knees weeping for all the innocent lives lost?  Libya is being decimated by a crazed dictator who insists on complete obedience to his will and kills anyone who marches for a free democratic country.  Japan gets hit with a record breaking earthquake and aftershocks that sends tsunamis destroying everything in its path.  Thousands killed; possible nuclear meltdown; trillions of dollars in damage.  America on the verge of economic collapse, being called upon once more to act. The U.N. standing back and watching while innocent civilians are being hunted like animals; afraid to take a hard stand.  And here we sit; glued to our computers and big screen TV's watching it like it's the next movie blockbuster.  Who do we help? How do we help?  Where will the next disaster hit?  When will it be our turn? 

Having gone through 2 summers of serious fires here in the Okanagan, I kinda know how uncertain and scary acts of God can be, though nothing like what is happening in Japan.  People do rise to the occasion and many acts of pure heroism are demonstrated, but in a situation of this magnitude, it becomes overwhelming. Thailand is still healing; New Orleans and Haiti are still far from being put back together... it just seems too big.  Too much carnage to fix.  Where do we start?  Is this the beginning of the end?

I often wonder about our kids and what they'll have to deal with in their lifetimes. It would be nice to think it won't be hard, but that is unrealistic.  As we become more and more advanced, we fall further under the weight of greed and power.  Mankind is a scary animal; at times willing to eat its own young. 

I do not envy God in his position as judge... we never seem to learn.

(I recognize this post is rather disjointed and flips around for which I apologize.  It's just been that kind of a week... shock and horror; anger and sadness.)