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“Whistling In The Dark”

“Whistling In The Dark”

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 September 14, 2025: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. This has been a most difficult week, and not because there is no joy in Metville – as Mets fans watch our team self-destruct. If only that was the most difficult news this week. Sadly, it is not. Once again, violence has struck at a school – this time, Evergreen High School in Colorado, by Desmond Holly, a 16 year old white supremacist who was a student there. That news was overshadowed by the assassination of political activist and far right podcaster, Charlie Kirk. The motive of the young man who appears to have committed this heinous act remains unclear, but Lordy the entire internet want to tell you why he did it before they even identified him as a suspect. He is just the latest in a string of attacks on political figures, including the murder of Minnesota Democratic State Senator Hortman and her husband, along with the shooting of Minnesota US Senator Hoffman and his wife, Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Shapiro’s home set on fire, multiple attempts on the Republican President, another against Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, and the brutal beating of Democratic Speaker Pelosi’s husband. All of this in the last two years alone. But sadly, this latest apparent political violence and school shooting wasn’t the only news this week. Our President ordered a missile strike against a boat from Venezuela, killing all eleven on board alleging it was a drug smuggling craft headed for US shores. Yet, this is also not normal, as we usually arrest and prosecute these types of individuals, not kill them out right. Add to that, it has come to light that the boat was actually turning around. The nautical equivalent of shooting someone in the back. South Korean engineers, who were in Georgia to set up the new US based EV battery plant, were arrested and detained by our government. While later released, this has caused an international quagmire with one of our strategic allies – all in the name of ridding our country of non-white immigrants. Israel & Russia continue to kill thousands of civilians, including little children, every day. And if that were not enough, we remembered those who were killed on 9/11- an act of horrific violence, and those who later died from exposure to carcinogens associated with the debris. I mean – seriously – all of this in this past week alone! And, there was likely more that went unnoticed, or unmentioned in the news. That’s the way of things today in our country. In fact, when we hear news like this, it doesn’t shock us anymore. We are saddened, we grieve, but we are no longer surprised. Lordy, what a time in which we live in where death – violent death – has become a regular part of our daily lives. Where empathy for those who are suffering is based not on our common humanity, but on whether we agree with them, like them, look like them, or love our guns more. I mean, even Mr. Kirk once said, “I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.” Rational? God-given rights to weapons? Seriously? And this man claimed to follow Jesus? Lord help us. We are pained by the words of some of those in the public sphere, we are brokenhearted by the death of innocent children, we mourn the mounting loss of life all around us, we are horrified by the cruelty against those whom God called us to welcome – strangers in our land, and we are saturated with the vitriol that overshadows all of it. Perhaps we can understand the words of the psalmist this morning, who wrote “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” All are corrupt and commit abominable acts; there is none who does any good. The Lord looks down from heaven upon us all, to see if there is any who is wise, if there is one who seeks after God.” Or to put it another way, God is doing a face palm right now and wondering if maybe this human experiment is beyond repair. As for the rest of us, the violence, the outright cruelty, and the lack of equitable compassion by some who seem to care only when the victims are people they like or agree with, all of it, well – it can make you feel swirling and lost. And that’s why the gospel today is so timely. In the gospel, Jesus tells us that a shepherd, having lost one of his 100 sheep, leaves the 99 in search of the lost, and rejoices once the sheep is found. Jesus then continues and tells the story of the woman with 10 coins, who realizing one is lost, searches the house until she finds it, and then rejoices with her friends over finding it. Jesus is giving us another analogy for the how the kin-dom of God works. Now, generally, who do we think Jesus was talking about as the shepherd? God, right? So, as I like to note each time this comes up – if the ...
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