When the World Makes You Crazy

When the world makes you crazy, and you wonder how drag queen story hours for children are now a normal part of programming at the local public library, 

and when there is more outcry for an animal that must be killed than for the child that it attacked, 

and when canvassers on the street corner call out for women’s rights when that does not include the right of an unborn female to be born, 

and when people’s uptightness causes them to honk their horns at the car in front of them that is waiting patiently for a pedestrian to cross the street, 

and when shootings happen daily and suicide is on the rise and all sense of decorum goes out the window when it comes to politics, 

and when one is actually scared to voice their advocacy for traditional values—such as a mother choosing the high calling of forgoing work outside the home to raise her children, 

and when the “F” bomb and other cursing has become an accepted part of the vernacular—forced on those within earshot and no different than second-hand smoke in its pollution…

then do as Jesus did:

“As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, ‘If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.’” Luke 19:41-42

Weep and pray, for they do not know what they are doing.

Copyright Barb Harwood