Gone

As I think on about what Memorial Day means here.  All the sacrifices of the men and women who came before me.  The stories I have heard from fellow soldiers who were "there"...

Was it worth it?

Where are we going now?

I am also struck by the changes I have seen even in my own lifetime.  Things I took for granted when I was a boy.  Things I thought were impossible, or at least too difficult to be worth the effort.  What will get better?  What will get worse?  What will begin?  what will end?

this quote I originally heard from one of my favorite lecturers, Ravi Zacharias.  He adds his own tag on to this, and I think it is appropriate...

Behind the debris of these solemn supermen, and self-styled imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of one, because of whom, by whom, in whom and through whom alone, mankind may still have peace: The person of Jesus Christ. I present him as the way, the truth, and the life.