birth pangs

inward/outward, the blog of Our Church of the Saviour, Washington DC, has this quote:

"Now I am aware of the fact that there are those who would contend that we live in the most ghastly period of human history…. They would argue that we are retrogressing instead of progressing. But far from representing retrogression and tragic meaninglessness, the present tensions represent the necessary pains that accompany the birth of anything new." Facing the Challenge of a New Age - Martin Luther King, Jr.

We live in interesting times. We live in a age of both hope & hopelessness; of faith and faithlessness; of change and not wanting to change. As the blog says:

We stand today between two worlds - the dying old and the emerging new.

We need to remember this in times of turmoil and change. To use a cliche... "it's darkest before the dawn"