Prostrated

I just spent the last hour reading various news articles on various websites. Without sin and disaster, there would be no news. The cumulative effect of reading this sort of thing is to make one feel impotent, finite, and helpless -- helpless to stem the tide of corruption and sin.

It makes one fall on one's face and cry, "God be merciful to us poor sinners."

Our only hope is in the cleansing bought by Christ.