This One's for You, Dad.

My father is celebrating a birthday this month... an off-year number, and he's a realistic man -- when you ask on his birthday how he's doing, he'll reply -- honestly:  "Well, I'm old..."

More importantly,
he mentioned to me that this month, he is celebrating 60 years in this country, a country he both loves and is worried for the future of.  He doesn't understand how we can tolerate the growing inequity that has so many people resorting to violence and theft when there is a complete dearth of jobs in so many regions.

People need work, honest jobs...
But our priorities are out of place:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.  This world in arms is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.  This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.  Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."  ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953.

 From our lips, to God's ears...
Pray for peace, people everywhere.

"Do you see what I see?
Do you hear what I hear?
Do you know what I know?"