“Imagine all the people living life in peace,” some guy who died in 1980 said. And this is supposed to be this period where we talk about “peace on earth.” Of course, I’m also reminded of Jeremiah 6, which reads: “For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is greedy for gain, And from the prophet even to the priest Everyone deals falsely. They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially, Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ But there is no peace. Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They were not even ashamed at all; They did not even know how to blush.”
I think we humans will always disagree, but must we, as the saying goes, be disagreeable? This post by Dustbury reminded me of this; a simple fast food encounter where the patron’s job, it seems, was to be a schmuck.
“Nothing to kill or die for.” Here’s a list of active wars and conflicts in the world, most of which you have never heard about. Many of them I never knew about.
“Imagine no possessions.” Global Wealth Rises as Gap Between Rich and Poor Grows, as reported by FOX Business News, no less.
Well, I could go on. Guess I’m feeling a little melancholy about the world, especially on this day, for it was 33 years ago, as the now bitterly ironic “Just Like Starting Over” was climbing the charts, when John Lennon was gunned down, by a fan, of course.
I’ll be less cranky tomorrow – probably.
I lived down the block from John and Yoko, on West 73rd Street, when it happened. They were just neighbors; they’d walk, pushing Sean in a stroller. Then I moved to Attica where the schmuck Mark David Chapman lived a half a mile from me… in prison.
FOX Business News? For once, FOX reported something true. Who’da thunkit? Amy
No matter how much we would like Lennon’s song to be true on many levels, the fact it that this world and everyone in it is flawed. What better time than now to look towards the time when all things will be made new….imagine there’s no heaven? Sorry, can’t do it!