"They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless."
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Frightful words and frightful times are these. Rather than think of the 14th Century, I am reminded of the stories my grandmother told me of the Depression and Dust Bowl. And the Guthrie song:
We talked of the end of the world, and then
We'd sing a song an' then sing it again.
We'd sit for an hour an' not say a word,
And then these words would be heard:
So long, it's been good to know yuh;
So long, it's been good to know yuh;
So long, it's been good to know yuh.
This dusty old dust is a-gettin' my home,
And I got to be driftin' along.
But it was not the end of the world, of course. These people had faith, fortitude and courage they didn't know they had.
"They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless."
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Frightful words and frightful times are these. Rather than think of the 14th Century, I am reminded of the stories my grandmother told me of the Depression and Dust Bowl. And the Guthrie song:
We talked of the end of the world, and then
We'd sing a song an' then sing it again.
We'd sit for an hour an' not say a word,
And then these words would be heard:
So long, it's been good to know yuh;
So long, it's been good to know yuh;
So long, it's been good to know yuh.
This dusty old dust is a-gettin' my home,
And I got to be driftin' along.
But it was not the end of the world, of course. These people had faith, fortitude and courage they didn't know they had.