Wayne Stewart

The world is an evil place and it seems to get worse as the years continue.

It would be nice if language didn’t evolve quite so much.

Everybody knows words have meaning, but unfortunately those meanings tend to change over the years for some words, while other words tend to hold on to theirs over the course of time.

Is there enough salt in the ocean so everybody can take a grain of it to choke down all the politician promises served up during an election year.?There is no problem too large, no dilemma they can’t handle and no mountain they can’t topple. Have a leaky faucet? They will form a committee, study the problem, come up with a solution and attack the problem head on as they set up the DDA, the Drip Deterrence Agency.

The political left is fond of painting the more conservative types in America as dumb, ignorant, hateful and sometimes slack jawed.

There is probably a lot of stuff happening in the world right now, much of it important, but likely not “big” enough to grab everybody’s collective attention.

Another year has passed and the earth still keeps turning.

Try and imagine back a couple of millennia as Mary sat in a barn, looking at her newborn son nestled in a feed trough.

The birth was different, she knew this from the visit she had from an angel about a year before. Luke retold the encounter: “The angel went to her and said, ‘Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.’

“And he said to me, ‘Go in and see the wicked and detestable things they are doing here.’ So I went in and looked and I saw portrayed all over the walls all kinds of crawling things and unclean animals and all the idols of Israel. In front of them stood seventy elders of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.

How the grindstones of the wheels of democracy keep churning.