Confusion Abounds

I am always amazed at how fast and easy the ultra conservatives are ready to fight, and fight nasty, too. Why is that? Why are they so angry?

I don't care really because I have put that type of energy behind me. Christ has allowed me to not be hooked by their provocations any longer. I might feel the burn a moment, but then the reality comes through, God is in charge. Even for the most conservative and the most liberal, it is hard to come to the understanding that God is in charge. Not just some vague wish fulfillment without meaning, saying "Oh, God's in charge," but really, down deep, against all your stands, politics and even religion, to face the reality that God is in charge.

Oh, we all say it, but it's only applicable so long as things are going our way. It is much more difficult to say it when things are decidedly not going our way. When anger and defensiveness rise up in our hearts, that is when it is most important to say, and to MEAN that God is in charge.

Hooplas which must be left to God:

Gay genetically vs. Gay by choice.

Latin Mass/Revised Missal/ vs. Vatican II

Apostolic Visitation to the Female Religious Orders

The Pope honoring, and allowing to function, a Bishop already accused and confessed of molesting seminarians in Poland.

Those are matters than must be left in the hands of God. God is in charge. When people insult you -- "be angry, but do not sin." God is in charge.

Why is that so hard to understand and practice? Because we think we know best. We think we know the mind of God. We think that our special understand of the scriptures or the church or God, is the one, unique and only way to see it. Not so, and why? Because, God is in charge, and neither you, nor me, no any power on earth or in heaven knows the mind of God, except God.