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Making Sense of Our Senses: What We Do with What We See
A pandemic of problems, an inexhaustible supply of dramatization of those problems, an infinite complexity of factors — all created by and acted out by one species: humans — me, you, us.
The Amazon rainforest shrinks daily. People burn it now. Throughout the world, power-hungry, ego-driven authoritarians take control of nations, and many support these dictators, who oppress millions. The oceans fill with plastic. Animal species disappear. Ecosystems are destroyed. The environment, in general, is ravaged. Wars rage. Crimes multiply. Children are shot daily. More people than we can imagine live in hunger every day, and on this planet more than three times the population of the United States doesn’t even have electricity.
Many people cry from the depths of their souls, “What can we do?”
About 2,000 years ago, some followers of a man asked a similar question when they didn’t have enough to eat. They were the same men who had seen over 5,000 people fed with only five loaves of bread and two fish, yet they thought a few of them would go hungry.
Their leader said, “Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember?” (NASB Mark 8:18).
We have seen some of the problems before; they multiply and intensify now, yet many still…
