many conversations over the past week…one in particular with a young man, also named sam, who i visited with in prison yesterday. he’s just 18. his view of the world and his plight is grounded in what i think peggy noonan points out here in her op piece from the wsj. we are living in very interesting times. those of us in leadership within the faith community have got to start rethinking some things. here’s a couple of clips…
The biggest threat to America right now is not government spending, huge deficits, foreign ownership of our debt, world terrorism, two wars, potential epidemics or nuts with nukes. The biggest long-term threat is that people are becoming and have become disheartened, that this condition is reaching critical mass, and that it afflicts most broadly and deeply those members of the American leadership class who are not in Washington, most especially those in business….We are governed at all levels by America’s luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they’re not optimists—they’re unimaginative. They don’t have faith, they’ve just never been foreclosed on. They are stupid and they are callous, and they don’t mind it when people become disheartened. They don’t even notice.