A Conundrum!

Good morning!  As I have yet again did my survey of media to get a sense of our world across a wide spectrum of sources, my aggregate mindset is that we have arrived in our world in a state of Conundrum.  Each day it seems a new realm of dissent, distrust and dissatisfaction abound. Our faith in our peace officers is now tainted with the afterglow being stoked that every police officer in America cannot wake up early enough to load his or her weapon to get on the streets to find a black person to kill that day; how sick is that?

 

Our government!  Well there is just too much to comment on but to say that in my own mind I have not faith in either party nor in the current lugs that we pay to go to Washington to represent our views and belief.  Too much money makes our governmental elected leaders nothing but NASCAR driver sponsored prostitutes working at the whelm of K Street; it really is more correct than not should you choose to push back on my assessment.   The POTUS situation is, well, just plain terrible and continues to be murky and now the infamous CIA debacle unfolding. Oh, remember the IRS, VA, Benghazi, etc, etc?  No wonder We the People have just given up on this morass. But the conundrum is, we CANNOT do that for the poison wins!  

 

But my greater concern is the deterioration of our national value systems for therein should lay the core where principles are learned and reinforced by parents. Right, wrong, good and bad are environmentally taught.  Seeing more and more examples of the implication of the broken family unit is disheartening and growingly worrisome as I view into the next two generations.  Electronics has displaced parental control and teaching is a generalization but so very true.  Addiction to drugs in so many forms is astounding to me still and seeing addiction to electronics is just as concerning for within a family unit, parents and kids addicted to their Iphone, Ipads, Iwhatever, is a means to disconnect and erect walls that kill effective communication lines. It is not only sad; it is downright scary.

 

Many of you reading this will agree with my comments and some will not but even in my generation when things were not always rosy and lovely, at least, generally, there was a family unit that ate together, spent time together and learned from each other.  That model, generally, is completely broken today and I believe the many pitfalls we see, drug addiction, crime, overflowing jails and prisons, divorce, same sex relationships now adopting and having artificially inseminate pregnancies just causes me to have cold chills at the impact going forward.   What examples are being provided is the Conundrum?  Where are manners learned?  How boys treat girls and girls treat boys; where is that taught? In too many cases today it is taught at the university of pornography; sad but true.

 

So at the core of Conundrum is the lava flow of values and that is what I am most concerned about is the lack of example and lessons that teach values; value that are framed with what God says in His Word what is right and what is wrong. I question more and more simply, where are our heroes we once sought to be like?  Honestly, as I watch, read and listen, there is not a single person on the TV screens or newslines that I long to align with for there is this everpresent sense that if I wait a little long, there will be a revelation of wrong about that person or organization.  How sad is that? But so true!

 

As we begin a very busy next two weeks with much singing and events, I felt compelled to put words to the aching heart I feel about the state of our nation.