Just another day: Frozen

I haven't jotted an installment of "Just another day" in quite awhile.  History coupled with current events has us hurtling toward some destination.  Do we know?  Do we care?

Here's some cud to chew:

• The muddled Middle East:  Lebanon fell.  Tunisia turned over.  Egypt's in a tizzy.  Jordan's next in line.  Everything from Iraq east remains a cauldron of chaos.  Israel tries to deal with its inflation while trying to keep a Marty Feldman focus on the nations along its borders.  What's going down?  Here's Jay Nordlinger's take:
  

  "Those who know the most about the Middle East are saying the least, when it comes to the turmoil in Egypt. Or they are speaking most cautiously. They’re quickest to say, “I really don’t know. I don’t know the exact nature of this, or how it will turn out”... Those who know less speak in far more confident tones. They are even cocksure. I’m not sure we should trust anyone who speaks in those tones, just now."

  An interesting take, for sure. Jesus Christ himself gave a "no man knows" warning to his followers.  At the same time, he told them that they would know the seasons.  Day and hour, no.  Seasons, yes (Matthew 24:29-39).
  
  
• The Muslim Brotherhood.  Since the MB wants to destroy Israel, shouldn't it be illegal to use such a Kumbaya sentiment in their name?  Unless of course it merely means brotherhood amongst Muslims.  If that is the case, let us not be deceived.
  
  
• The King's Speech.  I stuck my thou-shalt-not finger into the eye of Hollywood last month (here, if you must).  I lamented the use of profanity in movies today.  My lament still stands.  Far too many movies use far too much profanity and they lose far too much money because far too many people will not take their families to see such.  While television and film can't bear all of the blame, the prevalence of profanity in day-to-day life can be attributed to its normalization in our entertainment.
  
  But my earlier diatribe indicted The King's Speech, a film raking awards left and right from those deemed worthy to dispense awards.  I began to hear great things about the movie from those whose opinion I held dear, so I took my bride and off we went to the movie-plex.  Great movie.  Great movie.  And the language, in two scenes, was not gratuitous nor unnecessary.  While I don't think foul language was common in that milieu, neither do the characters in the film.  And it led to one of the many laughs the film had to offer.
  
  A great love story, too.  What this has to do with "Just another day," I'm not certain.  Had to recant my previous glance down the nose.
  
  
• Ice.  Hurricanes battering Australia.  Critters dying in localized, plague-like proportions.  And snow.  And cold.  Over the last few months, the groanings of the earth seem as chronic as the aches in my back.  No respite.  Here in north Texas, our local Air Force Base has been closed for three consecutive days due to a snow and icing received on Monday night.  While the country lamented the fading and quieting of Joe DiMaggio, I don't think too many miss Al Gore.  It does seem that the earth is trying to tell us something, but I don't believe that it's that we caused it to toasty up a bit (Matthew 24:7-8)
  
  
• Persecution.  Penn State hates Chick-fil-A.  Sweet.  Let's see, if the nation's most elite universities roundly loathe a particular institution, then there must be a lot to love about that institution.  ROTC.  The Church.  Chick-fil-A.  Really, though, it's a tip of the iceberg thing.  Seems more and more that large entities have little tolerance for things of Christ. In the past as Christians faced persecution, they often ended up going to their death for their convictions.  In recent days, the Muslim response to persecution has also been to die for their convictions--but in their case it is self-inflicted and designed to take as many infidels with them as possible.  A bit of a difference.
  

  "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake."  ~ Jesus (Matthew 24:9)

Until next time, it's not just another day.

"They will say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.""

~ Peter (2 Peter 3:4)