Pastors sometimes view the world differently. Pondering the President’s visit to Houston today, the lines from three hymns come to mind.
“In an age of twisted values we have lost the truth we need. In sophisticated language we have justified our greed.”
“We have built discrimination on our prejudices and fear. Hatred swiftly turns to cruelty if we hold resentments dear.”
- Martin Leckebusch, “In an Age of Twisted Values“
And these lines from James Russell Lowell‘s old chestnut, “Once to Every Man and Nation”:
“Once to every man and nation/ Comes the moment to decide/ In the strife of truth with falsehood/ For the good or evil side;/ Some great cause, some great decision/ Offering each the bloom or blight,/ And the choice goes by forever/ ‘Twixt that darkness and that light.”
If John Newton, the former slave ship captain, could be turned into an abolitionist by the amazing grace “that saved a wretch like me,” who’s to say amazing things can’t happen on August 29, 2017?
- Gordon C. Stewart, Chaska, MN, August 29, 2017.
Views from the Edge 
I will keep waiting. Something wonderful will happen. I simply don’t know when.
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Marilyn, there are two kinds of waiting, as you know. One is passive; the other is active. Your’s is active. Thank you.
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