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<\/p>\nFor most of us, whose lot is to share life with computers, news is the first item that pops out to the screen. It is a rare occasion that the accompanying image is not that of a shootout \u2013 at a mall, at school, at a remote coffee place, a parking lot. Complete strangers kill other complete strangers\u00a0 – and glorify in it. Day in and day out.<\/p>\n
Next comes an image \u2013 and some information \u2013 of a\u00a0 segment of a bombed city, always with a lonely child walking among the desolation of its ruins. Russia\u2019s involvement was supposed to put an end to Syria\u2019s misery \u2013 well, it seems to be doing just the opposite.<\/p>\n
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Right after, moving to catch your wandering eye, a short video would come and go – over and over again.\u00a0 An inflatable boat full of people who risk their lives to reach the happy land where most of the shoot-outs take place is bobbing at a sandy shore. A body is carried.
\n\u201cDevil is doing well these days\u201d you think and get on with your work.<\/p>\n
Somewhat later, you get to the watering hole, called Tim Hortons, to get your morning coffee fix and a friend meets you there. The line is long, so you ask him \u201cwhat\u2019s the news?\u201d. You find out that the friend is in the middle of divorce \u2013 18 years of life down the drain. \u201cHow\u2019s your daughter taking it all?\u201d I ask. \u201cYou can imagine\u201d he says and becomes silent. You look at your friend and you still can remember him on his wedding day…\u00a0 both of them so happy, full of hope. Prayers, solemn Mass, family. There was the splendor of the dress of the bride, the mass of flowers, the joy of music –\u00a0 and the solemn blessing of the priest.. Two years later came the child, a sweet little girl and they were singing her songs together..
\nThen a black hole began to appear –
\nYes, \u201cdevil is doing exceptionally well these days\u201d, you think and cannot get back to work again.
\nAs coffee is getting cold, you are hunted by misery in the eyes of your friend, and pain in the eyes of his daughter, now a teen who will enter her adulthood wounded and hurt and will never trust anyone again.
\n\u2018How long, O Lord? I cry for help
\nbut you do not listen!
\nI cry out to you, \u201cViolence!\u201d
\nbut you do not intervene.
\nWhy do you let me see ruin;
\nwhy must I look at misery?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cHave patience\u201d whispers your guardian angel \u201cwhat you see is not the last word of God\u201d.
\nFor the vision still has its time,
\npresses on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint;
\nif it delays, wait for it,<\/p>\n
Sometimes even the very waiting becomes a heroic act of faith.
\nCan it become a mustard seed? Will the mustard seed grow,\u00a0 if watered with tears?<\/p>\n
For most of us, whose lot is to share life with computers, news is the first item that pops out to the screen. It is a rare occasion that the accompanying image is not that of a shootout \u2013 at a mall, at school, at a remote coffee place, a parking lot. Complete strangers kill […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n