What is Wrong with the World

So there is a woman that I know with long blond hair and the ability to catch your eye for a moment but little more. She has a crooked nose so that the right nostril is perfect but the left one crumbles like a tissue when she smiles or cries. She cries a lot because her life is a wreck but she pretends that everything is perfect, like she is perfect on the outside. On the inside, she is shallow. Externally she is reserved, meaning she hides who she really is. She takes more than she gives. Much more!

When you confront her or catch her off guard, she takes her thumb and places it against her temple and her forefinger rests on the side of her face pointing to the top of her head, forming an L --- Loser.

And she is.

We have all met a thousand of her in our lives. External beauty overcompensates for internal shallowness. She only cares about herself. So she manipulates and schemes and looks beautiful and gets by. She is the subject of many television shows and it is shocking to learn that cartoon characters really exist. But they do.

I’ve come to believe that this is a lot of professions. Politicians for sure who sell their soul for the vote and the reelection. Bureaucrats who wait out whoever is elected so that they can simply continue doing what they have always done because they really don’t care about the purpose but themselves. Ministers who pretend to speak for God because they have no clue where she is. Columnists and reporters who speak for everyone else because they have no ability to listen to others or themselves. And just people, who show up every day and instead of trying to make it all better, align themselves with the smallest common denominator because…they are small.

They care more about themselves than they do others. They survive at the expense of others. And this is the core of sin. And it abounds.

So in spite of whatever you have done or are doing, regardless of how many people you have helped or how many people you are helping. God asks that we rise above such actions. She wants us to rise above such people. Because that is holiness and it is good.

You’ll be outnumbered because there are so many like her all around.

And that is why there is homelessness. And discrimination. And racism. And envy. And hate. And poverty. And most everything else wrong with the world.

But I know her. And you do too.

And I know hundreds like her. And you do too.