{"id":643920,"date":"2018-03-05T05:43:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T05:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=643920"},"modified":"2018-03-05T05:43:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T05:43:11","slug":"societal-commentary-from-big-al-and-others-sun-4-mar-2018-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=643920","title":{"rendered":"Societal Commentary from Big Al and others. – Sun 4 Mar, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Big Al<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Here is a step in the right direction for our society.<\/p>\n

Big Al says: \u201cI have some personal coments that I will share with you tomorrow. I was going to do that today, but guess who got sick with a cold yet again? Yep, nobody gets colds in Palm Desert, but crazy mature men like me!\u201d Oh well, one of the joys of \u201cmaturing\u201d like we all are!<\/p>\n

America is at war with itself. Making peace won’t be peaceful.<\/p>\n

By Jentezen Franklin<\/p>\n

One of the most remarkable stories from World War I is the spontaneous Christmas Eve cease-fire of 1914.<\/p>\n

Huddled in their trenches on a bitter December day, Allied soldiers noticed something strange happening on the other side of the Western Front. They heard the familiar tune of \u201cSilent Night,\u201d but in German. At first cautious, they responded with an English chorus of \u201cThe First Noel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow could we resist wishing each other a Merry Christmas, even though we might be at each other’s throats immediately after?\u201d wrote Private Frederick Heath in a letter home.<\/p>\n

In pockets along the front, soldiers from opposing armies greeted one another and exchanged chocolates and cigarettes as gifts. There are even accounts of soccer matches played in no man’s land \u2014 the most famous of which the Germans claim to have won 3-2.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlood and peace, enmity and fraternity \u2014 war’s most amazing paradox,\u201d scrawled the British private. \u201cThe night wore on to dawn \u2014 a night made easier by songs from the German trenches, the pipings of piccolos and from our broad lines laughter and Christmas carols. Not a shot was fired.\u201d<\/p>\n

One hundred years later, it seems we need a similar moment in America, when we can step out of our trenches and seek peace with one another.<\/p>\n

As an evangelical pastor, I’m painfully aware of how our differences can lead us to misunderstand, resent and hurt one another. We win arguments but lose relationships. We make more enemies than friends. Sometimes, it seems like we fight simply because that’s the only thing we’ve ever done.<\/p>\n

Solomon, in Ecclesiastes, wrote that there’s \u201ca time for war and a time for peace.\u201d Could we make our current time of war into a time for peace?<\/p>\n

Jesus said, \u201cBlessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.\u201d Every Christian in America is called to be a peacemaker among the ideological, racial, cultural and religious divisions of our day. But we must be well aware that peacemaking is anything but peaceful.<\/p>\n

Peacemaking \u2014 or peace manufacturing, as I call it \u2014 requires you walk straight into the line of fire and expose yourself to risk of injury from both your enemies and your friends. It demands you love those who won’t love you back, speak blessings on those who curse you and give freely to those who don’t deserve mercy.<\/p>\n

Peace manufacturing is a call to love everyone, everyday, like you’ve never been hurt.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, peace comes at the expense of those who broker it. Jesus taught us as much by dying on a cross for \u2026read more<\/a> <\/p>\n

Source:: The Korelin Economics Report<\/a><\/p>\n

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