Animal Crackers, Dramas, and Stuff

My spine hurts.

Last night I’m playing the Devil and the guy playing Jesus is supposed to beat the snot out of me at the end of this play… including throwing me into “hell” where I land on a mattress hopefully.

He did, and I did.

Such a Time As This…

Every now and then, in the big scheme of things, I think you come to a moment in history that is pivotal, and I think we have come to just such a time as a nation. Perhaps as a world. And I’m speaking of something larger than our politics here in the United States.

“This crisis is the first truly universal one in the history of humanity,” former IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus said at an ADB forum in Manila. He was talking of the economic crisis of course, and he added, “No country escapes from it. It has not yet bottomed out.”

Some believe our “crisis” is bigger than just economics. David Wilkerson, a guy I call a “big dog” in the faith, recently wrote: “What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God’s wrath.”

But whether we are facing nothing more than a severe, worldwide recession or the beginnings of the Tribulation itself -spoken of in the book of Revelation, I believe we are still facing an important moment in history. An important moment in our nation, and in our communities.