There are Heroes on Both Sides : Evil is Everywhere

What do you do when 

You're Not Sure? 

That's The Topic of 

My Sermon today. 

Last year when President Kennedy was assassinated, 

who among us did not experience 

the most profound 

Disorientation? Despair? 

Which way? 

What now? 

What do I say to my kids? 

What do I tell myself? 

It was a time of people sitting together, 

bound together by a common feeling of Hopelessness. 

But THINK of that — 

Your Bond with 

Your Fellow Being 

was Your Despair. 

It was a public experience,

it was awful, 

but We were in it together. 

How much worse is it then for the lone man, 

the lone woman, stricken by a private calamity? 

"No one knows I'm sick. " 

"No one knows I've lost my last real friend. " 

"No one knows I've done something wrong. " 

Imagine the isolation. 

Now you see The World as through A Window. 

On one side of the glass, happy untroubled people, 

and on the other side, you. 

God bless you, Sister.

Thank you. 

I wanna Tell You A Story. 

A cargo ship sank one night. 

It caught fire and went down, 

and only this one sailor survived. 

He found a lifeboat, rigged a sail, 

and being of a nautical discipline 

turned His Eyes to The Heavens 

and Read The Stars. 

He set a course for His Home, 

and, exhausted, fell asleep. 

Just keeps going on. 

Clouds rolled in, and for the next 20 nights, 

he could no longer see the stars. 

He thought he was on course, 

but there was 

no way to be certain. 

And as the days rolled on, 

and The Sailor wasted away, 

he began to have 

doubts. 

He just keeps on going. 

Had he set His Course right? 

Was he still going on towards His Home? 

Or was he horribly lost 

and doomed to 

a terrible death? 

No way to know. 

The message of the constellations, 

had he imagined it because of his desperate circumstance…? 

Or had he seen Truth once... 

Straighten up! 

... and now had to hold on to it 

without further reassurance? 

There are those of you in Church today, 

who know EXACTLY 

The Crisis of Faith I describe, 

and I wanna say to you, 

Doubt can be A Bond 

as powerful and sustaining as Certainty. 

When you are Lost, 

You are Not Alone.