Wake Up!

What portent must spew into our collective consciousness to incite our awareness of what is going on around us? Nary mass murder, war, poverty, scandal nor abuse seems to have the power to motivate us as a people to change the direction in which we are headed. The obscene practice of owning/operating SUVs will not disappear with even $10 per gallon gasoline, and neither will the fraying of the cultural cloth known as family repent for as long as greed is promoted over sacrifice. I find it interesting that the King James translation of Isaiah says it best: Where there is no vision, the people will perish. For those who assume that a utopian heaven is their ordained destiny there is little need to be concerned for this earthly existence. But for those of us who believe the Christ’s proclamation of the Kingdom at hand there is ample reason for us to finally decide whether we choose for it to be heaven or hell.