Human and the beast

Today has been one of paradoxes.  Great joy and great sorrow all emanating from the same source, human beings.

 I sometimes wonder if we aren't the greatest pestilence to ever over run the earth, destroying the air, and water, the other living creatures and even each other in a greedy, mindless, rush to claim power, amass things we value more than life and invent ways to destroy almost anything.

The intelligence so many tout is used to twist absolute truths so that we create a hierarchy of those who are better than.  Why?  I don't know, but I think it must be one of our baser instincts to want to "lord it over" those we can.

Human beings can be so dark and I am talking about their minds and hearts, not the color of their skin, or hair.

But today I saw a dawning, an actual bit of hope coming from the eastern part of our United States.  Our President, and the victims of a senseless human hate crime, stood up talking about love instead of retribution and hate.  Our Supreme Court, stood up for the idea that all people are created equal and now allow those who love each other to have the same rights no matter what sex they may be.

If there are going to be churches and religions and they are going to continue being a force to reckon with, I hope they will all stop being among the hate mongers, and find their God in 1 Corinthians 13.

Because our only real hope comes when we can tame the beast.