meditatio at the water's edge

Wednesday night - just watched the ABC news show - Nightline. The half hour was dedicated to discussing the Bush adminstration's foreign policy. Much of the conversation was about the Iraq war that will soon happen, but it seems that the administration hopes to rebuild Iraq as a little America, and then other "evil" dictators will be targeted as well.

I am deeply saddened. My brothers and sisters in Iraq will die Their families will be left without fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers. My sense of loving my enemy or caring for those who don't desereve it... to hell with it. It's all about America the beautiful.

Tonight I feel like a true resident alien. America hardly feels like home; what does that flag stand for anyway? Somehow we have so intertwined the American flag and the church in American that we too easily stand behind our leader. We can argue otherwise, but... but are we creating a policy for the world that is really something of which God would approve?

I'm going to try to sleep, but my soul longs for a kinder and gentler America.

Peace... Shalom... May He turn His face toward you and give you His peace!

(sigh... oh yea - I'm still resting in the arms of God!)