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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