Boom

This bombing thing is a bummer.  This kid.  He really was what used to be known as:  The American Dream. 

Poor, born in Chechnya, raised here.  Gets educated.  Wrestles.  Becomes an American, Has friends.  Goes to the Senior Prom.  Scholarship to College.  Likes to dance and have fun.  All around American teen...but, he's got this older brother.  A malcontent, can't get his life together, abusive to his wife...finds  Allah.  And for some reason chaos occurs.

Now he drags his little brother into this.  He makes him an accomplice.  Why?  For Allah.

Allah?  What God would call for the destruction of humanity, though I guess ours did in OLD testament...

Of course Moses murdered a guy, and David certainly slept around but Jesus showed us the true and simple path to God.  Being in unity with God.  Being one.  With God.  And you probably know the key.   You were perhaps taught it in catechism.  And so it was love.  Love.  Love God.  Love your Neighbor.  Embody unconditional Love.  And that's all.

Hate cripples us.  It turns our insides sour.  It burns our hearts away and destroys our soul.

Sure love might make you angry, you might have to overturn a few tables here and there but you only should do that to wake people up when they are being lazy, or willfully stupid. 

Murder.  Bombs.  Slaughter of innocence.  Those times need to be over.  God wants us to make each other better, not dead.

The thing people have the most trouble with though, the thing most people find unnervingly frustrating, the thing  they simply cannot fathom entirely of course is...its simplicity.  How can it be that simple?  Well, it just is.  Well, that's God.

As a favorite science teaching colleague of mine once responded to the biological question of an AP student:  Because God Said.

We are currently wreaking our own havoc environmentally with which we must contend, and which is neither pretty nor easy.  Please do not get crazy over the wacko muslims (or wacko anyones for that matter), let the FBI do that.  They catch those people.  Clearly.

Have faith in Christ.  Ultimately, he will protect you and not let you go.  (I was reminded of this today).

David Fenn