Two Odd Sightings

I had to make a one day trip to Columbia today. 4.5 hours driving for 2.5 hours of meetings. Wow, what a day. Sometimes you weigh the cost and wonder if it is worth it. This time it was. I'd hoped it would be and wasn't disappointed. The more contact I have with our Bishop the more I respect him.

On the way back I saw two things on along the highway. One a beautiful surprise, the other an obscenity. The first was unbelievable, but I believe that I saw this. It was a Bobcat! According to Wikipedia, this isn't possible as they don't range into Missouri. However, there it was, at the corner of Hwy's 24 and 70, in the median, pouncing on something. I'll confess that I saw it for only about 5 seconds as I drove by (at the legal speed limit of 70 mph I might add) but it was about the size of a medium sized dog and way bigger than any house cat I've ever seen, and I've seen Kevin Shelton's beast of a cat!

The second sight was really quite disturbing. You can't drive on 70 between Columbia and KC without the visual offense of all the porn purveyors which announce the availability of XXX and adult entertainment. That's bad enough as it is, and I would support any legislation to curb this public display. What I saw serves only to magnify the problem. Parked at one of those shops was a bus... a school bus. Whoever was driving that bus, and for the sake of the argument we'll assume the driver is male, would be leaving the porn shop to make his rounds picking up children from school and delivering them to home... in this case, down the long and lonely rural roads of that area of our state.

Beauty and the beast all within about a 10 miles stretch. This past week I maintained that evil is not God's problem. God created all out of love, including the beauty of nature. But, God help us, we sure have found ways to screw up God's beauty with our ugly.