I do not wish death to any human being. We are all Gods children. The ''being human" part of me wants to rejoice and celebrate the fact that "we got him" and the way it was accomplished. The spiritual part of me asks the question, "what would Jesus do". I try hard to "put off" the mortal man and embrace my spiritual being. In this case it is very hard for me to do. He now becomes a martyr. As we know in many cases of martyrdom, the legacy of the person becomes even stronger than the person themselves when they were alive. I do not want the hate, death and destruction of life that he espoused to become stronger in his memory. I want us to find a way to live in peace.
As a younger man I know that I felt hate and revenge for those who committed acts such as 9/11 and worse, Adolph Hitler comes to mind. Now I see that those feelings never made me feel any better, nothing really changed as a result and that as I have seen in so many people,including myself at times, it only took away from my ability to be the kind of person I believe Christ wants me to be. There is no time or place to celebrate hate or revenge. "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord"
So on this day of celebration, according to news reports from around the world, I am tempted to join in. But I pause. In this instance, can I find my spiritual self and look at this through those eyes rather than my physical ones. I will struggle and there will be times when I won't put my "mortal by". I hope and pray there will also be times, as brief as they may be, that the still small voice will whisper in my ear, "well, done, thou good and faithful servant"
