osama

i can tell you exactly where i was and the look on everyone's faces that terrible morning of september 11th.  i know that i won't remember last night's announcement of the death of osama bin laden with the same permanence.  ten years is a long time, and i frankly don't think his death has the same significance as it would have immediately following the attacks on america.  i'm still trying to figure out what to make out of all of this.  i don't react immediately to things.  i let them percolate.

some immediately reacted with jubilation.  others turned it into a political statement, either criticizing obama for saying "i" too much in his speech, or saying things like "now that we've got him, we can fully fund npr and planned parenthood." it's even spawned a fake mlk quote.

this does not require political discourse.  he was brought to justice for the terrible things he orchestrated, and that is all.  this wasn't republican or democrat, conservative or liberal, or even christian or muslim.  this was good vs. evil, and in this small instance good won, though in a brutal fashion. 

if anything, the death of osama bin laden has just reminded me how fallen our world really is and how desperately we need the grace that only comes from God.

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it's impossible to smoothly transition to this, so here's the song of the day:
day 2 - your least favorite song (well isn't that a little ambiguous?)
here's the first thing that came to mind.  i apologize now!