Some days, it feels like the world is imploding. Yet, here we sit, in our whitewashed tombs, thinking only of what the world outside is going to see and not concerned at all that death lies within. This morning, as I read through the Gospel of Matthew (Mat 23:27-32), these hard words struck me as particularly relevant to today's social and political climate: "You are like whitewashed tombs.... on the outside, you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing ." Isn't that what Facebook is for? Grandstanding? Being right? Tearing down other human beings in an effort to gain superiority, while our brothers and sisters around us are suffering, hurting, and dying? Beautiful pictures and high ideals sweep the page while the comments ravage any contradiction in belief; and the real world outside the confines of that pretty page continues to break and despair. "You say, 'If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have jo...
Teacher and Mother, Walking the Path with Humor and Love