Moscow's community discussion forum, Vision 2020, has been especially lively and lamentably ungracious over the holidays. I have been a vocal participant in Vision and a passionate defender of this unmediated "public square," and I'll continue. I'm not particularly dismayed that the discussion of Christian communion, faith in God, and the nature of belief has gotten as rough as it has. Suggestions that participation in the Eucharist is a symptom of mental illness and "prayers" to Santa Claus that mimic a prayer of Christian commitment are part and parcel of free expression.
Still, I've been reading all of the comments back and forth regarding Christian communion and faith in God, and I concluded, after the Santa Claus prayer posted yesterday, that the discussion had deteriorated beyond what I could (humbly) hope to remedy. But I was reading in the O.T. last night and came across this, which I'll submit as my contribution to a discussion I hope regains its respectful footing:
Habakkuk 3:17-18:
Thought the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit is on the vines;
though the produce of the olive fails, and the fields yield no food;
though the flock is cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will exult in the God of my salvation.
For God, the Lord, is my strength.
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