Monday, July 17, 2017

A Sinkhole


Video of homes being swallowed by a sinkhole has been on the news the past two days. One moment a house looks normal, stable; the next moment there is movement, and as the foundation is sucked into the ground the walls collapse and the roof goes with it. Within minutes clothing, photos, toys, furniture – the things of living and of family are gone – into the earth. Hopefully there are no people or pets descending into the abyss. Sometimes there are.

Everything looked normal when the sun rose over those houses – but everything was not normal – looks were deceiving.

When chaos is the “new norm”; when violence and promiscuity and darkness cover a land -what is normal is not normal; when a people reject the image of God to the point of defacing it in ever-increasing ways; when children are robbed not just of childhood but of humanity; when men and women are reduced to commodities, when they are human resources, not really any different that coal or solar or gas or other types of energy; when churches blend in with the “age” so as to endorse rather than challenge; when the poor and helpless are exploited at one time and ignored at another time; when we are drunk with pleasure and entertainment; when our minds have atrophied to the point where it is easier to carry a bucket of water five miles than carry a conversation five minutes…


May it not be that we have been swallowed by a sinkhole but that, in our stupor, we don’t know it?

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