Daily Devotion – 6 January 2023
Mass Love - the Only Solution
Another mass killing. We've heard and read this headline so many times, we've come to expect it. Seldom a day goes by it goes unposted.
Which is worse, we might sarcastically ask? A dark of the night knife slaying of four young women? Or, a family member killing seven of his family, then himself?
Every such report, regardless of the number slain or how, is chilling.
A single sentence condemns our culture: We have become a society of hate and despair, one which isolates individuals who have no meaningful sense of place and are thus led to commit atrocious acts that, they believe may make them into "somebodies."
How can love be regained after it has been lost? That is the key question. And it means that to stop the senseless slayings we must find a way to recover a society-wide love for humanity in which all individuals are included and therefore each feels of self-worth.
As a pastor, I am well aware that the creation of an all-encompassing love of every one is now the No. 1 task of all churches,
But, no, we too have been caught up in the senseless quest for money and power, despite all the hoopla that has surrounded the discussions of abortion, which, I firmly believe, has given the anti-abortionists a deserved reputation as being closed to the love of all of life, including the born and the unborn, as well as all persons who have lived, are living and will ever live in the future. And, Yes! Those on death row.
Fernando Cantu, Daily Prayer:
