Fall 2008 Update
We live in a broken world. There is a line from a song by Charlie Hall that says, “this world is broken, yet beautifully made” and I recognize this truth daily in many ways. I see it every evening when I pass the man on the corner holding a sign that reads, “Vietnam Vet. Anything helps. God bless”. I open the pages of a magazine and read about the Untouchables of India who are shunned and left to die of treatable diseases or in childbirth because a doctor refuses to care for them due to the stigma of their caste.
I hear on the radio about war- torn counties in Africa, South American families who scavenge for food from the city dump, orphaned children in Eastern Europe whose physical needs are met, but who don’t know the love of a human touch…disease, greed, ignorance, intolerance, poverty.
This world is broken yet beautifully made.