Beaty’s Blog

I’ve noticed a trend or cycle.  It seems that I am constantly dissatisfied with some aspect of my life.  I  believe this to be normal for most people.  We always want to be better at something.  After a while the want or maybe even the motivation to change this area of life seems to wane.  Eventually it is accepted and not really an issue.  I recognize that I don’t like something, but eventually it becomes a part of me and my identity.  In the mean time I am constantly being transformed in good ways.  I am much brighter and wiser than ever before.  I understand God’s call on my life better than every before.  I am further along the path of God’s purpose for me than ever before.  I am simultaneously becoming better while becoming worse.  Its a very disturbing cycle.  I find it interesting that the last century has been the bloodiest ever.  More people died in war than ever before.  There has also be more Christian martyrs than every before.  It is modern thought that gave rise to Hitler and Stalin and such philosophies as nihilism and the postmoder critique of objective truth.  It is modern science that invented the nuclear bomb.  Simultaneously there is also more Christians than ever before.  Society is has become much better in providing basic needs for all of humanity (we still have a long way to go).  Science has been able to prolong almost anyone’s life to 70+.  Are we becoming, better or worse?