Thru Blind Alleys and Dark Corners

     Is today a day when we will just walk through these dark times without hope? Do we really have to walk through blind alleys and dark corners and feel the fear imposed upon us by others?  Do we have to have a world in which it is dominated by bad news and events that strips us of our moral composure?  These are questions that are almost answered in our subconscious daily as we prepare to start our day.  There are people out there with "causes" that seem to want us to conform to their world view and to their type of world they live in. Which is violent in nature. Scripture reveals that it is inside the heart that the issues of life take place.  It is also said that we are naturally haters of God or that and enmity exists between us and him until  such time as we behave with a change of heart towards ourselves and others.  This is extremely hard to do alone and without a sense of direction in which we are going.  If the world's events continue to encroach upon our daily lives then there will be a pressure inside of us to contend with.  It is how we deal with these things that make or break us.  To respond with love and to turn away from our own angers is necessary at times like these. It is difficult especially when innocent lives are taken away in senseless violence.  We have been privileged to live in a free society where our freedoms have been protected by laws and have been free from reprisals when we challenge systems of belief.  It is not so in many other countries of the world.  Regimes are inherently bad when one person controls the majority of power and the ordinary person cannot break the repressions they live in daily.
     Christ lived in a time when three quarters of the world bowed to a Roman rule.  It was supreme and it meant death to oppose Caesar.  Yet he went about preaching a kingdom of God with intensity that was to overcome Rome by love and by being last instead of first.  Though it ended in his death, it prepared the way for us to enter a new kingdom...even while still here on a violent Earth..............This is a hope that has not been quenched for over two-thousand years and continues to thrive in places like China,places in  Latin America,  and other counties where man has imposed harsh systems government that cripples the human spirit. 
     So have hope even today when driving to work and your mind is coping with these times....