Jay McCarl

‘Everyone pointed fingers, but no one took the blame,’ a long-forgotten song descried, and more than ever this intensifying blame-game fouls the news and sours social media…

A gun can be loaded, cocked, set aside—and never go off for all eternity, unless someone picks it up and chooses to use it. People do kill people—but even if all guns went away, people would just resort to sticks and rocks. Why? It’s now laudable to hate the people who disagree, blaming the hate on them. Worse, it’s become a cancelable offence to teach children the sacred value of life because all are made in God’s image.

Disagree? No problem—enjoy your place in today’s evolved world, It’s the world that clearly demonstrated in the murders of Charlie Kirk, a Ukrainian refugee girl and a bus full of Israelis in Jerusalem that it desperately needs the same Jesus, values and truth it’s been rejecting since the ’60’s. He’s still the medicine and the final cure. So what if it offends? Swallow it—choke it down if necessary.

The world needs Him—and He changes it one soul, one heart, one mind at a time. In the (shamelessly adjusted by me) words of the departing alien, Klaatu, in ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’, ‘Your choice is simple: [take Jesus] and live in peace or pursue your present course and face obliteration… The decision rests with you.’ The movie was fiction—the choice is not…

Hope to see you at church this Sunday.

—jay