the current chaos

the world could fall apart, but if it does not fall apart at my doorstep...if it does not come to meet me at my doorstep...is it truly falling apart?

like youth strung out on their own lack of experience, i can feign ignorance of the thousands of invaders, the thousands of homeless, and the thousands of despondent, if it fails to touch my world. i can wallow behind a wall of indifference, if i want to hide my heart from the pain of humanity. but should i blend in with the clueless, give way to the heartless void present in a society destined for failure?

and if i do, what good am I? 

if i am wonderfully and fearfully made, by the mind and hand of a creator, what i do is important to that creator. it must be because that creator must have designed a purpose for me as that creator has purposed what appears to be a complicated world, of which I am a small but important part. not insignificant, in that i am not swatted away like a gnat or washed down the drain like an ant. not ultimate, in that i am part of a fellowship of humanity. it is humbling to know that the creator purposed my existence. 

the current chaos...the churning upheaval of western civilization, caught in a downward spiral by forces that seem to be allied together to destroy rather than create...is inescapable in the western world. Wall yourself off from the world and it will seep in through the cracks to remind you that there are forces that hate you, apparently for the mere reason of your reflective image from the creator. you have the capacity to create, like the creator. you have, deep within you, a capacity for compassion, for self-less love, unless you too have given yourself over to the chaos, to the religion of destruction. 

And that is truly what it is, a religion. A set of beliefs. It seeks self-destruction in the name of the antithesis of creation. The evil once incarnated is simply the absence of the creative. if the creator, or God, pre-existed, evil could not have existed before a choice was made to abandon creation. So, this chaos, this evil, has set about to accelerate decay, not create, destruction, not resurrection.