?ADONDE ES "BAJA ARIZONA?" -- For JUST A MINUTE Radio -- Wednesday 110316

Great to greet you in the middle of this week…

 

It’s been a continuing busy week. With conflicts on every level beginning to sort *themselves* out.  The Federal Congress still has it’s hands in the air and waving them all around… but Harry will eventually learn that doesn’t do any good… and Eric Cantor is also perceiving the ‘newbies’ are not as malleable as he once thought. Speaker John Boehner is second in line of succession after the Vice President and before the President pro tempore of the Senate. I’m always reminded of the gaffe committed by Gen. Alexander Haig who pronounced *himself* ‘in charge here’ to the Reagan cabinet after the President had been shot. I guess in tumultuous times like that all kinds of responsibilities distort your memory.  So it is today…

 

Presently we’re being presented with media’s concerns about the Tsunami that devastated part of Japan’s coastline and apparently has knocked out several nuclear plants and swallowed four high-speed trains – not to mention what seems likely to be several thousand deaths within the Japanese populace. I am reminded, however, as a former reporter in the news business, the tendency of ‘on the scene observers’ seems to be to make things worse than they really turn out to be. I recall on that horrible morning when the international villains who crumpled the Trade Towers in New York, crashed into the Pentagon and would have done the same to the White House had not brave souls taken matters into their own hands and ended that scenario in a Pennsylvania farm field – That day as the second tower’s fall signaled America was indeed under enemy attack – estimates of the coming death toll were in the tens of thousands because of the number of people known to work at those impressive locations.

 

No question but the horror was more than enough to go around. But those initial estimates were far above the actual numbers when all was over. Nonetheless… man’s inhumanity to man is a terrible thing to behold.  It continues to be fodder for the news machines and all that entails. We do, however seem to put the absolute worst estimates on the events at the time they are happening. I suppose it is in our nature to do so – perhaps we just don’t want to be thought callus.

 

Today, I took an entirely different subject… a story which did not make the front page of our largest daily newspaper. People gathering at a beer garden in Tucson, Arizona figuring out how they might be able to declare themselves in Pima County, Arizona not to be a part of the United States of America.  That seems to me to have a far greater tragic aspect. People who are surrounded by blessings, and indeed kindnesses – wanting to divorce themselves from the country that has made those blessings possible – and granted life to many who would otherwise be cut short.

 

At the same time – the paradox of having doctors on one floor of any major hospital’s neo-natal unit striving with all the skills they can muster to save the lives of infants and their mothers… while a short distance away – sometimes in the same building, other medically skilled men and women apply their talents to terminating life… estimated by some to be as many as 50 million abortions since the passage of Roe v. Wade – and what a tragedy and monument to man’s inhumanity to the absolutely helpless and innocent among us – it is simply amazing as humans we can indeed be so callus.

 

But the Lord has come the first time – to show us HIS way – and what HE intends. It is just incomprehensible to know mankind can be a party to such wickedness… but an even greater miracle, that God can redeem and forgive such acts and attitudes. Truly those who are ‘washed in the cleansing blood of the Lamb of God, so clearly set forth in HIS miraculous book, demonstrated historically and protected through the ages, that is miraculous beyond comprehension.  He promises to come again in power and great glory.

 

May we never fail in understanding it.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

 

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