Incarnation

 He who created the universe,

Willingly confined to bones and flesh,

Immortality became mortal,

Accepting frail humanness.

 

We, the product of his hands,

Allowed to touch with ours,

The very hands and face of God,

Who for us subdues his powers.

 

His visage could have struck us dead,

But instead, was marred by man,

For from the very dawn of time,

His death was his own plan.

 

How can I comprehend it?

A humble incarnation,

Design of an Almighty God

To bring to us salvation.

Hillary, the Deplorables and Abortion

I just read an article saying that Hillary was right about “deplorables” and their desire to reverse Roe V. Wade and therefore, take away women’s autonomy over their own bodies.

Deplorables are depicted as uneducated right-wing Christian fascists.  Well, that’s pretty insulting to someone like myself who has a graduate degree, typically scores in the 98^th to 99^th percentile on tests, and does not consider my views to be off the rails into extremism.

I have NOT wanted to vote for Trump in the past two elections.  It required “holding my nose.”  I am appalled by some of his attitudes and behaviors.  However, I was also appalled by the policies espoused by Hillary and now Joe.

I actually do not believe that all abortion is murder.  I know that may be heresy to some of my Christian friends.  I think it is warranted in certain situations…very few situations, but some.  I can stomach the idea of early abortion, particularly in cases of rape and incest.  However, if nothing else, abortion demonstrates disrespect for life.  That general diminishing of the great importance of human life is behind other ills in our society.  School shootings are one thing that come to mind.  Human life, including one’s own life, must be significantly devalued to the point of mental illness for such atrocities to occur.

I would argue that a woman gives up control of her own body when she spreads her legs and allows a man between them.  She is surrendering her autonomy either to him or to her own passions.  There are natural consequences to our behaviors.  The risk of pregnancy is one of them.  Either you accept the consequences of your behavior, or you find some way out…perhaps by terminating the life of your own child.

Whether Hillary et al. want to believe it or not, there are moral absolutes.  Our society has totally abandoned that notion.  When everything becomes acceptable, we leave ourselves and our children drifting in a nightmare.  To what will we cling?  What hope do we have?  What we do have is despair as exhibited by most school shooters and large segments of our society, who feel oppressed and misunderstood.  They act out in rage or dull their pain through substance abuse. 

Trump was in many ways not a reasonable man. (I hope that he does not run in 2024.) I am hopeful that his appointees to the Supreme Court are reasonable people who will do whatever they can to restore some foundational beliefs which have been flushed down the drain in recent years.  If they can’t do that, our country is going to go swirling down the sewer into chaos and complete moral decay.