Don't get too distracted!
The lectionary reading this past week has included Paul's second letter to Timothy. So long ago the Holy Spirit gave inspiration to help us hold steady:
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people.
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths.
What the Church has taught and Scripture has affirmed for almost 2000 years is what we are to focus on and hold to tightly in spite of all the perverted thinking and activity that cannot see beyond what appears to so important at the moment.
Spend more time in Scripture and prayer instead of letting daily "news" create a distraction from the Kingdom that will endure beyond all that seems so important in this world that is passing away.
