in a world where:

thousands upon thousands of people have just died as victims of the most tumultuously catastrophic natural disaster of our time...

others have died in the ongoing war on terrorism that continues to be what i suspected it was when it began -- a no-win situation...

millions of hearts are breaking and eroding everyday as the sin'dustries (sinful industries like pornography and drug trafficking) steal, kill, and destroy us bit by bit in legally sanctioned moral decay...

millions of dollars that could be helping to heal our world are needlessly and obliviously squandered on "entertainment", like celebrity salaries and lifestyle expenses, as degradingly gross (grossly poor values, grossly poor quality, and/or both) movies and music that have no business in our cultural consciousness is continually being intravenously injected into our psychic databases for the sake of godless greed...

in a world where all these situations and more are begging for my attention and action:

i'm freaking out about what candle will be on what table in what spot on the platform for my little wedding this saturday.

perspective is the saving grace
of savage weeks like this
where truth is at risk of theft
by my petty distress

thank God i'm marrying a man
who leads me to this grace
and lifts me kicking and screaming
to perspective's higher place

i'm going to blog one more time before the big day...let's hope it's still with a voice of grace in the face of 55 million micro demands staring me down, well maybe a little less than that. slow down and love, slow down and love, slow down and love, clear your mind, clear your soul, let peace gently take control...of me, of my amazing new marriage, of all my loved ones, of this broken but beautiful world.