EVOLVING IN A PLACE CALLED EDEN
IS A PROMISING YOUNG CIVILIZATION...
Look at the headlines seriously this past week. Observe the magnitude of the issues in play, in the history of civilization:
- The White House and Congress are locked in battle over the economy with Democrats unwilling to cut social programs, and their counterparts stubborn refusal (gasp!) in realizing that not increasing taxes on the wealthiest 5% of America will make the other 95% REALLY ANGRY.
- The first "city in space" is compete
- War, famine, plague. ***** Where's the GOOD NEWS?
- A single European currency has begun its life, sort of.
- Uneasy truce remains between Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Muslim, and so forth.
- Peace or war between Arab and Jew to be deterined by a tiny strip of land.
- Confrontation with a dictator has the world watching.
- Earth's climate change can no longer be ignored as 'fantasy'.
- Rise and fall of modern national economies here and abroad troubles the world.
- Brutal weather patterns and systems continue to circle the globe. Earthquakes, tornadoes and drought worsen with each passing day.
Sound all too familiar?