Pining

What better time to catch up on your reading than Finals week? While reading through Pachinko and going over the book of Judges, the theme of oppression echoes throughout their stories of poverty, violence, and death. It's a sobering reminder for me that I have it pretty good even though things are still very imperfect.

Yesterday, schools across the nation received a potential threat for shootings that may occur today. One teacher heard from a student about a specific time and place of something happening on our campus. It's hard to know what's real or fake these days, but I have felt a heavier burden ever since I became a father. I now understand why people plea for their life by informing their assailant that they have children.

When will school shootings, Covid, and all the other brokenness of this world ever end? Be reminded by those beautiful lyrics in O Holy Night:

Chains shall he break for the slave is our brother; And in His name all oppression shall cease.

In the Bible there was rest in the land for x amount of years after each judge. What does that tell us about how long our rest will be when the final judge comes?

Thought of the Day: Ophthalmology

Song of the Day: Frank Sinatra-Jingle Bells