An age that can not acknowledge Truth

We are in such a conceded age. The people of power in our age make no bones about showing that they place power and money above all other things. We live in an age that is marked by worship of "a god of forces", the power of economic might and the infallibility of those in power. Yet as I look I see the power they think they have built on such imaginary foundations to see they must be delusional. The foolish builders who have no foundation but that of sand, building in flood plain so they will be near the river.

Lord God, your judgement comes soon as it is written that "...in the last days, People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather then lovers of God - having a form of godliness but denying its power." (2Tim3:1-5)

These are dark days for our world, in the economic, political and religious realms we look to money and power, not to the needs and God, the fulfiller of needs.

Me, We, and You

I have been thinking about the issues in our society today and it boils down to an "I" problem. We, as a society, have been focused far too much on "me" not enough on "we" and not at all on "you". Less focus on the common good and more focus on what is good for me is slowly destroying your society.

Not that this is a new issue. It comes around again and again in the history of man, and it is always the down fall of nations. The problem is that it seems so deeply ingrained in our psyche as Americans and effects the wealthy and poor alike. We need to loose "me" and look to making "we" and "you" important to each one of us.

Saint Paul said that we need to consider the needs of others as equal to our needs. I believe that this is true and do try to live by this. But so many see this as weakness, and not a strength that it truly is. If we turn to God and ask for his guidance in doing the true Common Good he would help us and heal us, and then we become greater then we ever been in the past.

I dare say that ALL of the major issues of the day are due to self seeking by some group and if we all seek the Common Good with the help of God, we would solve all the great issues of our time.

Would this happen? I sadly say no, it won't, as we, collectively, are just too selfish to admit our faults and too self focused to admit our need for the Almighty.

Trying to Blog again

Well I went to blog last night and discovered that blogger was down... hard. This is discouraging when I want to but out a thought for (possible) public consumption. I signed into Facebook for the first time yesterday and I was not whelmed. I am a technologist, and I can see some advantage to the social media stuff, but I do think there may be a bit much tending these things on line instead of in person.

The other question is since I signed up for Facebook, it must mean I am missing the next big thing. So what is it???