Our world is crazy. The Boston Marathon Bombings prove that. However, our world is also heroic. The aftermath of the Bombings prove that as well. Having said that, I don't know which is more heart-breaking. The victims whose destinies have been so altered they face a future they could never have imagined living, or the suspects who felt such hatred for our country, they felt compelled to wield that hatred in a most heinous way. Either way, my heart is broken.
That's why attending Pastor Joel Osteen's "A Night of Hope" in the Miami Marlins Stadium this past weekend served as a good starting point to heal my heart. The stadium was "souled" out, and the crowd, singing God's praises as one voice, was amazing. There was no talk of bombs, hatred, or shattered lives. There was only love and forgiveness and the realization that we must keep our faith, even when this crazy world of ours seems to be spinning out of control.
As I have said in another post, Pastor Osteen is a hero of mine. He never dwells on the negative, only the positive, and of course, how to obtain peace deep in your soul. He never lays blame, only speaks the truth of forgiveness. Why forgiveness? So that we can move forward with our lives. So we can find our own destiny and never look back or lay blame. So we can be all that we dreamed we could be, and then some. And lastly, so that when we leave this crazy, chaotic, human world behind us, and return back to the astral one, we will know deep in our souls that we have come home. The light of God's face will be so overpowering that we will chose to stay and bask in that joy for the rest of eternity, rather than incarnating into another human lifetime filled with a world gone crazy with hatred.
