The recent school shootings have riveted the attention of the nation once more on the problem of violence in our society. This situation became real to me on Thursday, when my granddaughter's school received a anonymous letter threatening her class at their picnic planned for last Friday. After the recent shootings and the narrowly averted violence at nearby Wimberly, the administration called off the picnic. But this problem is only the tip of the iceberg. It is merely the most visible part of the dearth of values within our present civilization.
Flowers grow well when they have fertile soil.
And they look good when they are first placed in a vase. But in time, inevitably, they wither. Trueblood predicted that the disconnect between humanity and God would inevitably lead to a withered civilization. We are now experiencing that result of cutting ourselves off from the divine source of life. Efforts are now being made to identify and curb those influences that perpetuate disorder in our nation.