When you are already in an apocalyptic state of mind, watching “Hotel Rwanda” may not be your best choice. No doubt, it’s an incredible movie. I like Don Chedle period, but he’s especially good in this one. Still, the movie is a bummer. Sure, it shows how one person can make a meaningful stand in the face of evil. But it also illustrates how there is hella evil in the world.
There are any number of places where racial tensions threaten to boil over into genocide, where countries as we have known them are threatening to split apart, where the economic structure on which the world has built its economy is headed for a fiscal cliff. Or, if the big picture is too abstract, consider gas hoarders in the northeast or Black Friday shoppers all over the place beating each other down for disposable cell phones.
I’m not seeing, on Christ the King Sunday, how Jesus has got this one. That’s the message though, isn’t it? That the King is on the case. I hope He will accept my doubts, because these will not be my last. I fear that cliff we are headed for will finally result in a shattering for which we are not prepared. The likelihood, however, is that we’ll just be fractured. Broken enough to reminded that we can’t do this alone. The good news, of course, is that it’s not necessary to try.