Time to cry out

Dear Friends,

 

We watch in horror while torture is condoned, napalm is used in Fallujah, hospitals are bombed and medical personnel are killed or imprisoned.  It's hard to get reports from Iraq; Al Jazeera is banned there, and western reporters are too fearful of being kidnapped to venture out much.  What we do hear is unbearable, and we feel powerless to stop it.

 

The focus among American progressives is on recounting the vote, yet it seems hopeless.  The machines were rigged, and the officials in charge of recounts are all Bush supporters.  Whatever happened to the American sense of fair play and decency?  What happened to respect for the vote, the basis of our democracy?   What has happened to the soul of America?

 

When times are this dark, only faith will carry us through, faith that if we cry out loud enough, God will give us the wisdom, and the courage, and the power to restore some sense of justice and mercy to America.

 

He will be gracious to you when you cry out,
as soon as He hears He will answer you.
The Lord will give you the bread you need
and the water for which you thirst.

Isaiah 30: 20

http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/120404.htm

 

In the name of the Prince of Peace,   Carol Wolman