But the greatest of these is...Courage??

Cool quote I found on my buddy's profile. Thanks Blake!

"What is, therefore, our task today? Shall I answer: 'Faith, hope, and love'? That sounds beautiful. But I would say - courage. No, even that is not challenging enough to be the whole truth. Our task today is recklessness. For what we Christians lack is not psychology or literature . . . we lack a holy rage - the recklessness which comes from the knowledge of God and humanity. The ability to rage when justice lies prostrate on the streets, and when the lie rages across the face of the earth . . . a holy anger about the things that are wrong in the world. To rage against the ravaging of God's earth, and the destruction of God's world. To rage when little children must die of hunger, when the tables of the rich are sagging with food. To rage at the senseless killing of so many, and against the madness of militaries. To rage at the lie that calls the threat of death and the strategy of destruction peace. To rage against complaceny. To restlessly seek that recklessness that will challenge and seek to change human history until it conforms to the norms of the Kingdom of God. And remember the signs of the Christian Church have been the Lion, the Lamb, the Dove, and the Fish . . . but never the chameleon."
-Kaj Munk

A child my parents have been supporting for many years recently died in a fire at a family reunion in Costa Rica. In addition, a friend from college committed suicide this week. Now I don't have the kind of "rage" that Kaj Munk is talking about for Christ, nor do I think that that would really be appropriate. However, anytime there is a shocking death, it always make me think about life. More specifically, makes me think about my life and what I should be doing with it.

So I like the words from this man (I think Kaj is a male name...), but I am still going to have to go with God on this one, that the greatest of these will always be love. Now I just have to do that, even in the midst of seeing trajedies all around. From Beaver Falls to Darfur, "all we need is love".

The Beatles, "All You Need is Love"