Saturday, May 7, 2016

I Confess... I've Often Wanted to Just Stay Home.

What a troubling time it is to be living in this world.  Violence and venom swirl in a seemingly constant stream of darkness that flows around us and threatens to overwhelm.  In our little corner of Panola County we’ve been witness to two senseless murders in the span of a few short weeks.  I see posts on social media about places I’ve lived and have such fond memories of from my childhood touched more and more often by violence and death.  National and local news outlets feed us an almost endless supply of stories surrounding these and other evils in our midst.  We’re given more and more reason to stay closer to home and become increasingly isolated.  And I more and more often hear people ask, “What’s happened to our community?!  It used to be a safe place to live.”