In times like ours it is so easy to get bogged down in a mood of despair. Problems all around us are so great, man’s inhumanity to man so shocking, that it is easy to see only the bad side of things and allow ourselves to be pulled down into a whirlpool of complaints and grief and hopelessness and despair. As Bob Dylan says it, and it is a theme running through so many of his songs, “The Times they are a changing.” And it seems often that change is taking us from bad to worse. People are complaining that the world is not only losing its energy, it is losing its mind. Kidnappings, highjackings, assassinations, massive political corruption! “What’s wrong with us?” people are asking. Almost every conversation, no matter where it starts, seems to end up in this kind of mood. That is why it is so important for us these days to remind ourselves that the People of God are a People…
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