The Search for Flight 370

Malaysian Authorities at News Conference

Can we possibly overlook the dramatic contrast going on in our world--between the cooperation of nations to find the mission flight #370 and Putin's Land grab?  There is of course the noticeable lack of Russian support for the search, and after all, they busy gobbling up another country.  It is as if they see themselves back in a colonial period of entitlement to any nation where the Russian language is spoken.  Whereas the difference in languages does not hinder the multi-nation search 1500 miles off Australia.

For those on Lenten journeys, we recall Jesus' wilderness sojourn and his walk toward the cross.  The powers and principalities at his birth were just as nonchalant at the end of his life until the charge of sedition and Pilate's political expediency nailed him to the cross.  He was killed because of what others thought he threatened -- they could have ignored him.  Somehow, we are called to make our call--who was he and who is he now for us?