It has been difficult this Veteran's Day Weekend when we think of the murders that have happened at Fort Hood. What would drive someone to think killing is an act of God? How could a man of faith, an army officer, and a health care professional do what he did? What can we learn from this?
We take some consolation from the fact that it is Children's Sabbath this Sunday and we will have our children in church.
What children remind us of and why Jesus said, "Let the children come to me, and forbid them not, for to such belongs the Kingdom of God."
With children they are honest.
With children there is goodness.
Children lead us from honest to goodness to God.
In a related issue Krista Tippett believes we learn to be good by being attracted by beauty. She wrote it this way in her book, Speaking of Faith, "As much as I have protested that virtue alive in the world is not about lovely platitudes, beauty is one of its defining attributes. A passion for beauty has always been at the core of human religious experience. Art, architecture, literature, and music owe everything to religion. The examples begin pouring out if you ponder this for just a second, lush and wild: not just the music of Bach, but the mandalas of Tibetan Buddhism, the calligraphy of the Qur'an and on and on and on."
Do we learn to be good through our passion for beauty?
What do you think? Write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to share your thoughts click on the box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles
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