Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

I don’t know about you, but I am increasingly appalled by some of the public rhetoric we hear these days.  I find it disconcerting the way name calling and verbal attacks on others have become a mainstream component of public discourse.  In fact, every day brings a new barrage of verbal bullets that dominate the headlines and take this vocal warfare to a new, unprecedented level.  And, quite frankly, I don’t see it getting better over the next couple of years.  This war of words does nothing but categorize and diminish others, and at the same time create increased brokenness in our culture and society.  And the brokenness spreads like a virulent virus into other facets of life, into our communities, organizations, our schools, our local governments and even our families.  All the name calling, the vicious verbal attacks, and the spoken forms of assault only breed violence, hatred, fear, and contempt.   In the depth of this present cultural context, one name calling word used all too frequently is the word “lo