Loving is Living

"Where once was light, Now darkness falls. Where once was love, Love is no more. Don't say goodbye… Don't say I didn't try... These tears we cry are falling rain… For all the lies you told us… The hurt, the blame! And we will weep to be so alone… We are lost! We can never go home… So in the end, I will be what I will be. No loyal friend was ever there for me… Now we say goodbye… We say you didn't try... These tears you cry have come too late… Take back the lies the hurt, the blame! And you will weep when you face the end alone… You are lost! You can never go home… You are lost! You can never go home…" - Gollum's song  by  Emiliana Torrini       Growing up I has what I now call the Gollum mindset. Gollum, formerly Sméagol, was respectable, had friends, he was one of the people. Then, he made a mistake, a horrid mistake at that, but he let that define the rest of his life. Everything he ever did from that point on was majorly, if not completel...

      On December 14, 2014, Jordanian pilot Moaf Al-Kasasbeh (Moo-off All Kah-saus-bay) was captured by ISIS when his plane went down in ISIS territory, in February 2015 he was murdered by them. As I watched the video that was released of Kasasbeh’s death on YouTube, I was deeply disturbed. They doused him in gasoline and put him in a cage, he was forced to watch the trail of flames come closer and closer to his cage until it got there and he was lit up as a human torch, skin visibly melting off of him. It was dark, it was evil, how could mankind do this to another? I thought. Make no mistake, there is evil in this world, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is a major part of it. Terrorism is rampant in America and across the globe, but how should we respond to it? As a people, as followers of Christ, how do we deal with terrorism?       ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, also known as IS, ISI, ISIL, and Daesh, split off from the extremist group k...