Can It Ever Work?

I've been feeling down today...

Probably because I've read this, watched this, and then thought about this:

Are people really are so impossible to enlighten?

Tarek Heggy seemed to be saying that although he works so that light will somehow get through, his hopes are rather low that it will!

Then there's that video...

The simple question of "Why is a group of Christians praying in a place "without a license" a problem for anybody" simply had no reasonable answer.

I'd understand it being a problem if you're a policemen charged with upholding the law (regardless how outrageous that law may be)... but if you're a layman who breaks a dozen laws a day, and then you get worked up enough about Christians praying "without a license" (ugh, I can't believe I'm actually arguing about this!) to commit acts of violence to stop it, and you happen to have tens or hundreds of like-minded people with you... then you can't possibly tell me it's because "they have no license" or "they're breaking the law"! And the "eye witness" was honest (ha!) enough about it to say his problem is "they're too few"!!!!

The fact that people can be so hateful, ignorant and illogical, and harm others because of that, cobined with the incredible notion that they can get away with it and even get official support from a senator to do it, makes Tarek Heggy too right! There seems to be a lack of will to change on the streets as well as in the top-floor offices.

Then to try & cheer myself up, I decided to read anything for G. K. Chesterton off the web.

It worked for a little while, too well in fact, that it made me think again about why almost nobody knows this guy

And that got me back into the pithole...

Because it seems that being insightful, compassionate, funny, wise and right doesn't necessarily lead to making a change at all!

and I started wondering (forgive my arrogance) if maybe I can be like Chesterton; but like Chesterton, would make no difference whatsoever in changing people or the events they cause to happen, so that it would lead to a brighter future.

That's a serious frustration because as I believe it, things and people on all levels must eventually and through providence, be enlightened.

and like Switchfoot put it, the tension is between how it is and how it should be.

that tension is... well... such a bummer!

In Providence

I've been blessed enough to see providence up close.

I remember how I thought that I needed to make a certain amount of money to be able to sustain my family in Egypt, and how I was offered 500 pounds more.

And lately I've felt that we need a bit more money, and I was thinking that if my wife gets any job, we'll need that job to pay a certain amount of money, and guess what happens? A job comes along, and she gets offered 500 pounds more!

I like knowing that I get more than I hope for, and I like feeling safe to hope for more.

I also like how the word providence is related to the word provide,

Fittingly enough, one can etymologically link providence to providing to vision.

I like God providing for us, and I like it when I can spot a larger vision than mine in what he causes to happen with us.

So this is to remind myself of you, your thoughts and your work, Father...

Thank You, I love You.