Brightening Up a Little

"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.

"So it is."

"And freezing."

"Is it?"

"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately."

Shipwrecking Columbus

I was going to write about Columbus Day. I had a cute little graphic picked out and everything, see? But this blog is about life along the rabbit trail and exploring where it may lead. This week it led to Obama getting the Ignoble Peace Affirmation.


A contributor identified as mtlmnr49 had this to say on Yahoo!Answers:

The Nobel Prize committee clearly supports and endorses an agenda that reduces the role of the United States in the world, promotes global governance over national sovereignty, and brings about equality among nations by reducing the standard of living of prosperous nations rather than promoting economic freedom in the developing world.

When examining the records of the last three US politicians to win the Peace prize, the agenda of the committee is easily seen. Woodrow Wilson's work in subjugating national sovereignty to the League of Nations won him the prize in 1919, Jimmy Carter's 2002 Peace prize was given in support of his opposition to the US's right to defend itself without authorization from an international authority, and Al Gore won the prize for endorsing a policy that requires the Western World to lower its standard of living by up to 30% in the hopes that it will lower global temperatures by less than 1 degree over 100 years.

It was upon reading this that the rabbit trail forked away from my intended comments on Christopher Columbus's family life and toward the award.

I think that it is important for those folks who do not wish to sound foolish when commenting on this event to realize that nominations for this prize closed eleven days after Obama's inauguration. Eleven days, or twelve if you count parts of days, because the nominations closed February 1, 2009, but I can be generous—call it less than two weeks, then.

Clearly this prize was awarded, not based on verifiable actions and accomplishments, but upon what a small group of people with the power to make this decision alleged to be true.

Now I ask you, are you going to live your life and make choices that affect others as if Obama is bringing peace on earth?

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Pious mercy is a symptom of sin.

My great thesis for this week is:
Pious mercy is a symptom of sin.

I know, it sounds a bit off, right? Pious is good. Mercy is good. Since when do two positives make a negative?

Not in the math books, perhaps. But in real life it does in the case of pious mercy.


I posit that celerity in granting pious mercy is frequently indicative of hidden sin in the life of the grantor.

They "forgive" quickly because they do not wish to be too closely scrutinized themselves. Swept neatly under the rug. Or so they wish. It is the old 'judge not, that you be not judged' crowd.

Most folks won't venture to pray as David did in Psalm 59:5 when he implores God, "Do not be gracious to any who are treacherous in iniquity."

Why not? Is it mean to want the wicked to fail? Our cultural answer is yes, that is mean. The scriptural answer is no, that is righteous.

The remarkable thing is that there are scriptural promises of the righteous being able to laugh at the downfall of the wicked. That must take tremendous depth of maturity. Or else purity.