By and Bye

- intercessor's lament -

​Once again, the daily newspapers are reporting more-and-more headlines on global disorder and strange events that seem to be moving into our communities. It's like an unseen force has shed a dark cloud and stirring unrest in flames of disobedience. Again, the reader moves to another page only to find the weather whipping up a torrent of misery and dismay. In the midst of this, another person travels along on their daily living until their journey is disrupted, leading to fits of road rage. And, at the end of the day, some solace is found in a movie that makes the day seem calm, when compared to the special effects. A conditioning that is nullifying the senses and aims to down play the urgency of signs and prophesy for today's morality. Therefore, a gospel tract from a few years ago. "For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound teaching, but, having their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths" (2 Timothy 4:3,4 NRSVue).

- an advocate's sigh -