Here’s what’s wrong with the world (and it’s not what you think)

Last updated on: September 15, 2010 at 7:02 am by David Rupert

Read the newspapers. Listen to the news. Participate in the chatter. This world is in chaos. Terrorism. Unemployment. Uncertainty. It’s chaos out there.

And we are quick to find targets: The Democrats. The Republicans. The UN. The corporate world.

What’s even worse is the hopeless feeling that we can do nothing about any of this. We are pawns in the power broker’s game. Pushed around.

Nearly a century ago, The Times of London asked G.K. Chesterton and several other eminent writers to contribute essays on the theme, “What’s Wrong With the World.”

Chesterton’s response was pointedly profound: “Dear Sirs, I am.”

When I rail at all the trouble on this planet, I must come to face to face that I’m a big part of it. I bristle at the charge that I have something to do about all this. But it’s true. I live beyond my means. I don’t give to my church or to the poor like I should. I don’t share the gospel story, giving hope to others. I live for myself, a pleasure-seeker if there ever was one.

So what’s wrong with the world? It starts with me.

Care to comment?

(UPDATE: Check out Ann over at A Holy Experience for a similiar take. “When you have no idea how to fix a broken world.” It’s amazing.)

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