A TWISTY THOUGHT SEQUENCE? MAYBE

‘O…o, po’ little Jesus, dis worl’ gonna break yo’ heart…..’
So starts a spiritual. This particular train of thought begins with my thinking of how my late first wife’s heart, had she been alive to see the Penn State scandal of 2010, would have been broken (she loved Penn State, of which she was an alumna). From there, I mull over how, sooner or later, this world breaks the hearts of close to all us bipeds.
Then I ask myself, and maybe ask God, What do we expect? We all need to grow up and know our parents, our countries, our ‘tribes’, including our faith communities, are human beings or human…