In the midst of fear we can find God

In the midst of fear we can find God

Watch as the signs of fear encompass our well-being when there seems to be no way around the evils of confoundment.  It becomes difficult to discern between accepting what we believe is right and society’s direction of what is acceptable.  

Today, the most adherence to acting as a common citizen is to follow what everyone calls modern and moral.  However, the morality of most people no longer fits the mode that most see as the proper manner in living an honorable existence.  As the latest news media has covered much of what Washington D.C. hands down to us is not on the same trect we grew up with.  Just the shootings and disrespect for life each night that disrupt the people trying to live normally in cities has become an obscenity.

Obscenity portrays matters that are sexual in nature and the taboo manner in which those corrupted by it are leading too many insurectioists into violent behavior.  Sins against sex are disgusting, but the activity being perpetrated upon persons are as bad or worse.  When someone attempts to rape a woman it isn’t the pleasure it reaches for but the power of control and capture of a vulnerable woman.  So it is with shooting as in the most recent events where these culprits are successful in controlling the lives of innocent persons, especially children, by causing intense suffering before they die.  

What are we to do when our children come home from a day at school with a message the teacher handed them encouraging disrespect to their parents or calling all white people as racists.  Add to that we do not need to attend a church that forbids gender corruption by congratulating same-sex marriage, and its ok to end a pregnancy by official means of aborting a baby.  After all, what is in the womb of a mother is just a biological mistake.  

This is just what is taking place in many of California’s public schools and will soon make its way to the rest of America.  Thank God the Church still has a prominent position with Catholic Schools teaching morality on a regular basis.  Of course, the latest sadness to advanced teaching is even some Cathoilc Universities are not endearing students with Cathoilc teaching and young students graduating are entering our world with corrupted ideas that pull us further away from God.  What would Jesus say to this falling away from faith?  “But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”  (Lk. 18: 8).

Ralph B. Hathaway