"Change People, and Times Will Be Changed

You say, the times are troublesome, the times are burdensome, the times are miserable. Live rightly and you will change the times.

The times have never hurt anyone. Those who are hurt are human beings; those by whom they are hurt are also human beings. So, change human beings and the times will be changed.

-- Sermon 311, 8

Prayer. Let my soul rouse itself, Lord, from weariness, lean on your creation and hobble toward you who made it all. For in you we are remade and find true strength.

-- Confessions 5, 1

St. Augustine of Hippo"

    At times changing human beings seems so difficult, so impossibly difficult. Every day we reach out to human beings and so often we are rejected. The times have not hardened the hearts of man, rather man's unwillingness to submit their lives to the Creator. But what freedom we find in Christ! Don't they understand? I daily feel my aching heart tighten in my chest as I experience teens struggle to understand, to want to understand, what it is like to have a relationship with a loving Father. I won't even go into that aspect of our relationship with Him right now, you know, the one where so many people have been so hurt by their fathers that they cannot comprehend a father actually showing love.

    Enough rambling-love is everything, but little is love. If we, if
I could just get my act together and really show people the love Christ shows to us then maybe we could really change people.