Last night I went to my favorite theater to see Malcolm & Teresa.  I missed my chance to use my last usher pass before it expired so she let me be an extra usher.  It was a new experience for me, going up by myself, not knowing anyone there, except a few of the actors themselves.  I felt very grown up and half-way lost.  Why is it I can be bold when someone else comes with me, but I’m shy when I’m alone?

“The play is the thing–“, and it was.

Riveting.  Gripping.  Sad.  Victorious.  Thoughtful.  I barely moved through two acts, trying to catch each word.

Amazing that circumstances from 60 and 80 years ago can seem like exactly what we deal with now.  And, as Christy pointed out, it’s amazing that no one really knows about the genocide in the Ukraine at the hand of Stalin, and yet nearly as many people died there as in the Holocaust.

Two of my favorite lines, both of them from Malcolm Muggeridge to Mother Teresa:

“…instead of changing the world, the Church has come to terms with it.”

“[The intellectuals] think men are perfect.  They think that if you educate a man, he will become good.”

As I listened to the question & answer session, all I could think was ‘There is nothing new under the sun…’  Part of me is nervous about this, until I remember the sovereignty of my God.

May the peace of God reign in your hearts…