I want to create a persuasive article with pictures so you'll see what I see, but in this forum, it isn't realistic, so your challenge is to put the pictures in your mind and follow me.
President Obama is touring the Middle East, and yesterday it was reported that he said that he believes in men. The address was in Cairo, June 4th, 2009. Men aren't good enough. Left to their own devices, men, mankind tends to get selfish and knock things and each other around.
Only with an overriding faith in something more important than self, does civilization prosper, and if that "something" isn't true, then it's fantasy, a device, just an exploit to get back to doing for oneself or one's own kind.
The Truth, is that there is one God creator of the universe who stands as the Most Important Thing in it. When man navigates by a stable reference point True North and beyond himself, he has direction and will make the target which is stewardship of this place and all of otherkind in all its forms.
Shift for a moment to Style magazine, July 2009. Michelle Pfeiffer is on the cover, she is 50 and in the photo shoots used for this article, she is the epitome of all that is to be desired of beauty and accomplishment for a woman. Even she, at this apex says on page 151 of the magazine, "Once you turn 50, you feel grateful you made it. Because you've lived long enough that you've lost people you love. You realize you're on your second half, that your time is finite here. I want to make the time I have count ... I don't want to be weighed down. I want to live a long time, and I want the quality of my life to be the best it can be. I'm not going down easy!" The last line of the article says about her, "Now more than ever, Pfeiffer knows exactly where she has been--and where she's going."
Do you get it? She feels she's going to flare and expire in the air, falling like a July firework into ashes on the ground. She's going down. That is all that humanism has to offer, all that the best there is has to look forward to, in the most fortunate life, to flash and end.
It is a lie. It is not the truth. There is a way to go up and beyond and be great no matter what life's circumstance affords. The truth is that this is temporal and there IS the Eternal. There is more! Listen with your spirit and you will know, that your body in all its youth and vigor, or all it's disease and decay, is not the essence of who you are. If you are trapped in drug addiction, in a tortuous slave camp, in a body that was born with cognitive delays, you are not gypped by the great roulette wheel of life. You have purpose and higher cause and there is a day when your form will reach perfection and endure for all time, perfectly -- IF -- you listen and abide by the physical natural and spiritual law of love that allows that to happen. God is, and He is Love. He's not just love for the white American, He is love for the low caste Indian, for the discarded Chinese baby girl, for the inner city gang member, for the Palestinian living in a degraded camp, for the Israeli wearing a gas mask during rocketfire. There is one world, one purpose for mankind in it, and one God who set it all in motion. If you believe in man, then you have to determine which man, which cause, which inclination to follow today. If you realize there is one God, you have purpose that doesn't shift with time and culture.
There is a Similac advertisement in this same Style magazine that is of note. Advertising and marketing, and propaganda, use devices to tie into our existing beliefs. This commercial for formula shows only hands cradling an infant's head. You see the caress and the fragility of the newborn child, arms folded over its chest in trust and security. So, do we believe in doing this for the infant, or do we believe it's conditional predicated on whether or not this child is convenient to our future enjoyment?
In the media this week is the report about a late term abortionist, shot down in his church where he held a position of leadership. He has done 60,000 abortions and specializes in "late term procedures." There's a shift for you. Believe in man and the right to sex however and wherever you want it, the consequences snuffed conveniently out. Under the best of circumstances, the man walks away clean. Under the best of circumstances, every, I tell you EVERY mother who has been under his "care" wonders.
In the space of that wondering lies the horror of, "what did I do? what does it mean?" I don't want to even talk to her about that question. I want to hug and hold her and say, "don't think about it." Please please please, don't think about it. It's done. Walk forward and perhaps, please, don't do it again.
There is something bigger than our best moment, or else there is no reason to live at all.
Not my ponderings, it's the truth.
