I have no idea what the title of this blog will be yet. I have so much on my mind and no idea where this bus will stop but I think it is really a continuation of my last post.

We just had such an awesome weekend because we traveled to Knoxville to spend time with our family, and we were all in church Sunday to see my oldest grandson’s baptism. And then there was “The Song.” I think I had everything under control until then. I was sitting next to his other grandfather and I could not stop the flood of emotion.

Dear Hate.

I guess I had been living under a rock, but I had never heard this song before.

Please, if you have never listened to this song, please find a quiet place and listen. The words are haunting.

In my defense, it was written three years ago and really took off after the Las Vegas shooting. Even though it became extremely popular, I never got the memo but I’m a fan now.

Now here we are, and the same hate that has destroyed men and women, families, ethnic groups, and countries since the beginning of time, is still here, and still quite well. Nothing disguises itself better than Hate. God calls us sheep, but we don’t like to see ourselves that way and Hate likes that kind of thinking.

We think that we can’t be lead away. We think that we can’t be fooled by people who aren’t looking out for our best interest. And sometimes we never figure it out. Most times, I think. I wish we all had balloons over our heads with our intentions clearly written inside. There are those two words again, I wish. There is a line in that song that goes like this…

You could poison any mind.

We don’t have a chance until we acknowledge this truth. Right now Hate is growing fat on us in this country… but reality isn’t just what we see on twenty four hour news, who focuses only on the the negative, and almost never on the positive. We are the negative… but aren’t we also the positive?

During church yesterday, the pastor made an important point.

Our football team is horrible, so what? People are hurting and people are dying without Jesus every day.

That is a very sobering thought. We live in a lost world that will never put limits on itself, but we also live in a world where there is hope.  I am just passing through, and the older I get, the harder it is for me to see all the never ending heartbreaking things that we are witnesses to these days, but for all the unhappiness, I am happy.

There is another line from that song, and that’s why I see this as a song of hope…

But I tell you, love’s gonna conquer all.

Then loves is gonna drop the mike.

ws