These are difficult questions in a difficult time. As a race we are no longer separated by long distances. Technology has made the world much smaller. Then again things are relative and we are a dysfunctional family. As I write this I grow more and more concerned about the future that awaits me. What shall it hold? Nothing is as it seems or as it was. Are we ourselves or have we become undone?
Tell me now, tell me if you can find answers in a world gone mad. Our children, our brothers and sisters, our family of man has become lost. We have strayed so far from the path that we no longer know where it is. We cannot return to Eden and Paradise has become too far away. Do we even have an idea which way to go? Surely we are the lost children of Eve.
A generation ago a popular singer asked a very poignant question: "What's going on?" That question remained unanswered at the time. In the here and now however, that same question has a more strident urgency. What's going on? Does anyone really want to give a response? The problem lies in the fact that we know what's going on. Do we do anything? Yes! No! Maybe! Mostly we just complain.
Where and to whom do we assess the fault? The government? The family? The churches? Perhaps as a society we are all at fault. Guilt by association? Mankind as defendant, abettor, and accomplice. An interesting concept is it not?
Have we all become Peter Pan? Is this Never-Never Land? Unfortunately it is not, this is the harsh reality of the real world. We have smelled to much coffee and may not have enough time left to smell the roses. If there are any left that is.
We are killing ourselves and by extension killing our world. If we are not here, then we cannot be conservators of our home. Yet we are failing at that also. This lush, fertile orb that nourishes us is being slowly drained of its life. By whom? By us, the creatures called men. We the civilized, intelligent denizens of this planet Earth. Are we truly worthy of our dominion over the lesser creatures?
Again the questions abound and we still refuse to answer. Are we so damned arrogant, full of so much misplaced and very undeserved pride? Yes we are! May there be mercy upon our blighted souls. Maybe we are not deserving of such divine grace, surely we have not shown much of it to those we share this earth with. I speak not only of men but to all manner of life indigenous to our habitat.
What's going on? What shall we do? Shall we lift our blinders? Shall we become human? Or remain the animals that we are? Have I done the animals a disservice by comparing ourselves to them? At least they can live in harmony.
Shall we ever learn to accept people as people? Why must we qualify another's existence? Is money important? Religion? Color? Race? Sex? Can we not recognize and respect each other as we are? Is this so difficult a task? We talk the talk but cannot walk the walk. If we did do the walking, then maybe our backs would not hurt. Maybe we could stand to look at our own reflections and then we could stand to look at each other as equals.
If we are created in the image of God, then we see His face every day. By rejecting others do we not in turn reject Him? He has given us that choice. Tell what me what else we have rejected. Have we rejected our humanity? Have we not realized our own potential? And what shall we say on Judgement Day? What shall we do when we see Him and have our faces revealed unto us?