ELOGOS

​The spectacle of watching an honorable man eaten alive was too much for me.  I was told honor cannot compete in an arena of evil and greed. That is why Jesus was killed I was told. That is why he said, "My kingdom is not of this world."  It sparked a decades-old memory of participating in a high-powered, intense, expensive leadership seminar. Nine CEOs of companies and me. I was their token non-profit participating due to a generous fellowship grant from a corporation. In every exercise during the seminar, I discovered there were only two outcomes. Learn something from the experience that I could take home to the people and the causes that mattered to me or be eaten alive. There was no winning. I was then and still, am now largely naive about the way the world works. Most people laugh at how naive I am...like Father Mulcahy in M*A*S*H. I am perpetually surprised at how honor lurks in the shadows and evil struts in plain sight. The ancient message of the Gospels tolls like a bell through the valley of the darkness. Evil is a flesh-eating disease. There is the cross of sacrifice and service to others or giving into the power of evil snacking on our naivete.