Saturday, February 11

Watched last night George Clooney’s produced, written, directed and starring, Ides of March about lying and betrayal on the presidential campaign trail.  In the movie no one is loyal to anyone or anything.

I had read it was loosely inspired by Robert Redford’s 1970s films, The Candidate and Three Days of the Condor which dealt with the realities of running for higher office and conspiracies within the CIA, respectively.  These movies came out with Watergate fresh in our minds.

Today it almost seems obvious that people will lie and betray each other in all kinds of area, politics, government, business, you name it.  It is almost as if now people are surprised when they are not lied to or betrayed because they know they are doing these things to others weather they have been discovered yet or not so they just assume it will happen to them, too eventually.  “No hard feelings, right, everyone does it, it’s just ___________ fill in the blank, business, politics, etc.”

Sunday, February 12

Blessed is anyone who endures temptation.

                                    James 1:12