The Smelker Seven

Happy News??

For the last two years I have had my home page set to Fox News because out of all the main news channels it is the most balanced and fair. However in the last two weeks or so, I have become disturbed at the stories they have chosen to place on their front page. Now, it's not their fault, the information they disseminate is important, timely and often gruesome; they are just doing their job. But I am disturbed at what makes headlines.

Today for example this story made headlines: Girl on X? Houston Police found a video posted online that shows a young girl (maybe 4 or 5) apparently high on Ecstasy, and HER MOTHER GAVE IT TO HER!!

How about this one? Mom Blames Great Sale... A parent ran into a grocery store to 'grab some meat' but got caught up in the sales and left her 11-month old in the car - in Florida - in the middle of summer!

During the weekend, this one was posted: Girl Buried Alive. India has long had a problem with families disposing of their girls, but this really highlights the depravity of humankind that an infant would be buried alive. Thank God for the farmer!

Where is the sanity? Where has common sense gone? When did running into the store to grab some meat beat out the welfare of your child? When is it ever all right to dispose of a child because she is the wrong gender? When is it ever OK to deliberately place your child's life in danger by giving her a controlled (and illegal) substance, and to then laugh at her when she loses control of her body?

There are two tragedies at play here. One is that these children are being harmed. The other is that thousands of couples all over the world are childless and would do just about anything to have a child. I personally have met several of them and helped two of them. Can you imagine the outrage they feel when they read stories like the ones posted? Of course we all feel (or should) feel outrage, but for those people desperate to have children this must be a real slap in the face.

And where are we, the body of Christ? I find it terribly ironic that as Christians we are so quick to point fingers at the world and say, "Look at that! It's disgusting." Of course it is, it's the world remember? How else are they going to behave? They are "under the sway of the evil one" according to the Word of God. But what influence can we exert to stop this kind of behaviour? A friend of ours, Bob Mitton posted this on his blog a short while back: Bloom Where You Planted, a very good reminder that when the church moves out of a neighborhood, there are major repercussions.

But seeing I cannot change the entire world by myself, I am going to work where I am. I am going to continue to try and bless childless couples for as long as I can.

Oh, and by the way, I decided to change my home page to something a little more upbeat - Happy News!

Labels: Fox News, Happy News

posted by The Smelker Seven @ 12:51 PM