The Hunger Game

Goliath Awaits, was a 1981 TV  Scifi Drama about the search for the Goliath, a passenger ship sunk in WWII. When divers find the vessel they get a surprise, people are still alive in an air pocket within the ship. When the ship sank, a method was found to produce oxygen to keep the passengers alive. Many of the people were happy to be rescued. Yet the Captain and some other had grown used to their home under the sea. Their attitude as summed up by the Captain was, "Rescue? From what?" Sometimes I admit, I feel the same way.

Jesus said those who hunger and thirst after rightousness will be filled. Those who don't, or those who think they are filled... Well, everyone who didn't leave Goliath died. Some people think being right with God is about keeping rules or condemning others. Ask the Pharasees how well that worked.

Even in a world where I struggle to survive I find myself being far too comfortable with this life. Some of the things I do to survive only anesthetize me so I want to sleep, not prepare to leave. Not so good if the bus leaves for God's country and I am not on it. Count it as joy if I must endure hardship? I don't know, maybe it makes some sense after all.

Turnabout Chicken

The news is that Chick-fil-A has reversed its previous policy of supporting anti-gay organizations. Isn't it interesting? Right-wing groups that supported Chick-fil-A in the name of freedom of religion are now condemning the restaurant chain. What is all to obvious is that to some people "freedom" means the freedom to believe as they do, not freedom as the dictionary defines it.

Jesus was quite open on the matter, God hates adultery and divorce. Yet when an adulterous woman was brought to Jesus, He said, "He who is without sin, cast the first." The only person who had the right to stone the sinful woman spoke in her defense.