Monday, January 10, 2011

Sense in a senseless world

It's interesting to watch the attempt by many to attach this senseless Arizona assassination attempt and murder spree to someone or something. It seems to be a typical human response to try to to figure out who to blame. Over the next several months we'll find out who's to blame --a lone gunman and perhaps an accomplice. Why go further than this? Perhaps we want to spend time and energy assigning further blame because we don't want to stop and wonder about a more important question: how do I bring sense to an often senseless world? Chaos is the symptom of evil. Order is the fruit of goodness. As cowardly as it was for that young man to step into the fresh and beautiful morning God had made for the people of Tuscon and spew violence and mayhem, what brave thing can I do in response? What is my countervailing act of beauty and goodness? A random act of kindness (perhaps many) in response to a random act of violence?

4 comments:

  1. Welcome back. Thanks for your thoughts on this and for your contined leadership of the CS Lewis
    classes. We have formed a nice group of COP Inklings with some very good discussion.
    Mac

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  2. Wouldn't it be nice to read instead about someone who serially commits acts of kindness?

    Oh yeah....it's called the New Testament and He is named Jesus....

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  3. What great words to ponder. Thanks!

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