...it is possible

 ...it is possible!


The daily news cycle ...no the hourly news cycle is little more than a display of how cruel, how careless, how selfish, how evil, how greedy, and how unreasonable human beings actually are! Every corner of the globe reveals our disregard for the planet, for the beauty, for things living. Our destruction seems to have no bounds for every form of life. Especially other human beings! Even pious religious leaders become sexual predators of defenseless children.  

The same sense of dismay and disappointment accumulates in like manner when one is a student of history. History is the discipline which documents the activities of humans generally across the centuries and across the planet, earth. Some say history records the progress of the human race, but how can we call it progress when almost every "forward progression" is merely a new, perhaps a more sophisticated way of killing and destruction?

Its easy to get a fairly accurate picture of the past. One only need read about the same event as written by several different authors. Additionally when one reads many sources which chronologically connect one era to the next and the next, a cohesive account forms which carries the events of one era and the consequences of those events into a quite complete and rational understanding.

Then the key understanding, the key conclusion comes into view: human beings suck! Pretty much!

An example of what is meant here is the event of the Great Depression, an event totally, wholly created by human beings. Add the effects of natures destruction to the human traits listed above...what do you get? The Great Depression! And often natures destruction is actually triggered by poor decisions and irrational acts by humans. 

On contemplation one wonders if human beings deserve to even exist?

Those who see things in this manner are called pessimists. Those who see this picture as all rosy and nice are called optimists.  Perhaps we could say that there is another class of humans who are well aware of the surrounding evil and acknowledge it but who say we humans can get a transfer to another existence where everything is absolutely perfect, happy, wholesome, and peachy from top to bottom.

So, does anything wholesome, good, or heroic reside in human beings? Perhaps the question is worth exploration and thought.

Well the answer is yes! We are capable of generosity, kindness, and caring.

Allen Vincent King lived a life which proves we are capable of caring about others and was in evidence by the over flow crowd which attended his funeral. Vince had lived a secret life of helping others, but was not capable of grandstanding. There were people in attendance who stood and said, "...were it not for Vince, I would be dead..." To me Vince proved that it is possible to be a Christian because he used the words of Jesus in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as more than a suggestion they were words to live by.