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Living with an Eternal Perspective: Are You in Love with the World?
What is your attitude toward this
world? There's a gospel song by Albert
Brumley that always challenges me to
examine my attitude toward the world.
The first verse goes as follows:

cent and vulgar performers like Madonna.
 I hate a world where government
tries to convert gambling from a vice to
a virtue.
 I hate a world in which professionThis world is not my home,
al athletes are paid over a million dolI'm just a passing through.
lars a year while hundreds of thouMy treasures are laid up
Somewhere beyond the blue.
sands sleep homeless in the streets
The angels beckon me
every night.
From heaven's open door,
 I hate a world where people judge
And I can't feel at home
and condemn one another on the baIn this world anymore.
sis of skin color.
Do those words express your feeling
about this world? What words would
 I hate a world that calls evil good
you use? Enthusiastic or uncomforta- by demanding that homosexuality be
ble? Enamored or alienated? Do you
recognized as a legitimate, alternative
feel at home or do you feel like a
lifestyle.
stranger?
 I hate a world in which
mothers are forced to work
A Personal View
while their children grow up
Let me ask your indulgence for a moin impersonal day care cenment as I share my personal feeling
ters.
about this world. The word I would use
is "hate." Yes, I hate this world. I hate  I hate a world in which
people die agonizing deaths
it with a passion so strong and so intense that I find it difficult to express in from diseases like cancer
and AIDS.
words.
Now, let me hasten to clarify my feel I hate a world where
ing by stating that I do not hate God's families are torn apart by
beautiful and marvelous creation.
alcohol abuse.
I have been privileged to marvel over
 I hate a world where
the majesty of the Alps. I have bee