Something is sweeping over us

A quick look at BBC world news reveals:

-Suicide blast hurts four Britons
-Army deployed after Assam riots
-Jharkhand blast kills 12 soldiers
-India bus accidents leave 25 dead
-Eight die in Pakistan Attack
-Bomb blast in Sri Lanka Capital
-Fresh bombs shake Iraqi capital
-Guatemala villages 'mass graves'
-NYC 'bomb threat' details leaked
-Colombia militia halt disarmament
-Six US marines die in Iraq blast
-Peacekeepers (in Darfur) die in ambush
-Thousands 'flee Sudan bombings'
-Congo soldiers on trial for rape
-Crisis looms (Food shortages grip Malawi)
-Quake kills 400 school children

Life is short. I spend so much time trying to get 'stuff' that won't last. The words of Ronald Sider impress upon me: "Both the call to care for our neighbour and the summons to sabbatical worship of God place limits on human acquisition and consumption. Material things are very good, but less important than spending time and enjoying right relationships with neighbour and God." (from an essay in The Care of Cration, R. J. Berry, editor)

I'm cutting the post short tonight. I'm off to spend time with my 'neighbours'. I want them to know true security - that found only in the unmovable, unchangable, all-powerful, loving, supreme God of us and all things.

Thanks for your response, Casie. I'll get back to you soon!