A Serious Way to Begin the Day
Was it Albert Einstein who said that our reason knows
practically no limits except how to change the human heart? If he did not say it, then he should
have. We as people remain our biggest
enigma and problem. What a painful
reminder of the anguish of humanity as we landed on Mars and had another
massacre at the same time—let alone the other headlines of senseless slaughter.
No question. The
landing on Mars was a tremendous technological achievement. Somehow, the contraption picture below made a
safe landing and will transmit pictures and information for several months.
Yet, at the same time, we saw the same pictures on the
television of the mass shooting in the Sihk Temple. Has anyone else recognized the most tragic
part of the event? There is far less
coverage, not the non-stop news cycle for it as there was for the Aurora
massacre. Have we grown numb to it? Is
such violence no longer as real to us?
The biblical story of the Garden of Eden helps to explain
the gap between what we know and what we cannot do for ourselves. The Adam and Eve story can be understood for
all Religions for explaining the source of violence in the world. Instead of living within their limits and
boundaries, so to speak, they choose to eat from the tree of knowledge of good
and evil. They sought to become their
own gods. We can choose to live as God’s creation, within the limits of being
human beings to further humanity. Or, we
can be gods in our own right and take the lives of others.
This week we saw the triumph and tragedy of our
humanity. As God’s creation, we
furthered humanity with the Mars landing. Being false gods, we saw the tragedy of taking
human life in another massacre.
Everyday sets the choice before us. The followers of any world Religion can serve
humanity as members of creation. Or, we
can choose to be godless except for ourselves and perpetrate massacres in many forms.
That’s a serious way to begin any day.
That’s the real choice of being alive.
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