Crisis

Cri­sis: God’s way of say­ing, “Do not set­tle for where you are now; there is a bet­ter way of living.”

His­tory is a record of the dis­as­ters that led to new forks in humanity’s road and the con­se­quences of choos­ing among the new options. Every chap­ter of the chron­i­cles of mankind should begin with the word “Oops” and end with: “And that led us to the next crisis.”

From heaven’s point of view, I have a feel­ing that we look like the Key­stone Cops down here. We do some of the dumb­est things with what­ever inten­tions of good we may have tem­porar­ily drummed up. Like all great com­edy, we do these silly things with a com­pletely straight face.

Cur­rently, we are focused on a man-made cri­sis (and most of them are man/woman made). It will pass from the news cycle and into the courts (where it will become an occa­sional foot­note). From this cri­sis, tech­nol­ogy will improve. Along the way there will be sym­bolic hang­ings and enough blame to fill an ency­clo­pe­dia of shame.

I find it all a bit enter­tain­ing. I also remind myself of the ways I do the same things on a smaller scale (acci­dents, surg­eries, bad deci­sions, good deci­sions that become bad deci­sions, etc.). We humans seem to learn only by trial and error (it should be phrased “error and trial”).

Let me see…hmmmm…today a group of men are mov­ing things up and down a flight of stairs and climb­ing var­i­ous lad­ders around an old church build­ing. I won­der what could pos­si­bly go wrong.