Posted by
Zentrist on Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:55:28 PM
Readers are encouraged to read these authors, their articles--and then pray or at least have "positve thoughts and vibes" about Pope Benedict's current mission, the visit to the Holy Land. Things are heating up there; they are heating up in Pakistan/Afghanistan; we are all of us, it seems, on the edge of the abyss. And most of us are not even privy to the really scary intelligence that lands on the president's desk every morning. I don't know how he does it, but I believe that prayer helps. I know that others believe that prayer is just a waste of time.
President Obama is in a pressure cooker right now. The King of Jordan has apparently turned up the heat. If any of us are in denial, chances are, we will soon be out of it. In the meantime, we have our jobs or our determination to find a job. We have or ought to have a legal-pad list of things to be grateful for. Not material things, although these in our country and in the West are especially nice. What I'm really grateful for is just another day to be alive, to take it all in. It is truly a magnificent spectacle. If we happen to have a modicum of health, it is all the better.