crazyness

what a day! i mean that. sometime just before noon or around that time today, i received a call from my MIL. she was with the FIL on the way to see the oldest BIL and SIL who live in wichita (about a 15 minute drive). apparently some losers decided to break into their house. my sister in law was alone with the 6-month old baby. the losers held her up at gun-point and locked them in a closet while they ransacked the house. they stole a few valuables and then her sports car. thank GOD a neighbor from across the street called the police when she noticed something suspicious (the losers going into the house). the losers were only a few blocks away when the police caught up with them. they ran into a pole (totaling the car), the police ran into the car as well, but the losers still managed to get away on foot.

UGHHHHHHH! it's so frustrating - no, not the fact that the cops didn't catch up with them (cops get trashed enough. give 'em a break); but i'm ticked off at losers. i'm once again faced with and saddened by the fact that we live in a society in which cowardly, lawless losers can break into someone's home and may get away with it. the thing is that it's not going to get any better. that's right. we think that just because of advancement in technology or whatever else we think we've advanced, that life will somehow get better. i'm not a 'this-world-is-coming-to-and-end-we're-all-doomed-to-die' person, but that is in fact going to happen one day. things, life, people's morals, values, and behaviors are just going to get progressively worse. peace on earth is not going to happen until it gets really bad. that's just how it is. it's sad, but it's true.

so what do we do in the meantime? we pray just to make it today. i know, i know, lame-o. really, though...we must do what we have been called to do. we must live unto Him who gave us life. we must not forget that those who are His are in His care and in His hand. we must tell those who don't know Him about His great compassion, mercy, forgiveness, and love. and we must be this love...in spite of and because of 'losers.'