tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24383995.post4666366355762568494..comments2024-03-22T04:12:44.008+08:00Comments on Breaking the Word: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24383995.post-70137493204279904832007-03-02T08:21:00.000+08:002007-03-02T08:21:00.000+08:00It is counter-culture in today's society to be hel...It is counter-culture in today's society to be helpless. There is nothing that science and technology cannot resolve or which money cannot buy. And it is getting actually more poignant by the day! The irony is the more the progress, the stronger the conviction. And yet we see around us, many things that neither science and technology or money can resolve: broken relationships, dishonesty, mortality/death.<BR/><BR/>We are utterly and totally helpless in the face of sin. Why? Because evil has been around much, much longer than any of us and 'it' knows how to exploit our weaknesses and vulnerabilities. <BR/><BR/>Why then do we go about kidding ourselves into thinking that we are "in control"? For one, society has conditioned us into believing that we are "in control". Fr Chris gives a more potent reason: that we are mostly half-hearted in our choice between life and death, good and evil. Yes, broadly speaking, we are decent folks but folks who blow neither hot or cold (myself included). Some of us are really part-time, half-hearted Christians. Lent is a time when we consciously re-affirm our loyal allegiance to God, the same allegiance we solemnly declared when we were first baptised and which we'll re-affirm this Easter. <BR/><BR/>"For all you have made and gifted me LORD, I am nothing without you. I have no one but you".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com