Do Trump & World Peace Rest on a Prayer?

Letter to Romans: It’s been said that out of Trump’s supposed chaotic rule has come an unexpected end to the war in the Middle East. Yet do such cynics realize that’s probably how God’s universe began, i.e, with a Big Bang?

As WSJ's Peggy Noonan, the die hard but reformable cynic that she is, recently noted: “When word broke in Gaza on Wednesday, they danced in the streets and chanted; they were still cheering on Thursday. In Israel they went to Hostage Square and sang. Here any reliable pundit would counsel caution – it could all fall apart, joy may be premature. All true. But I’ll take my joy premature, bartender … Sometimes you have to break away from heavy, sodden reality and go straight into joyful idiocy. I like the Barnum & Bailey aspect of the Trump administration … It’s human, and government doesn’t always seem human.”

Peggy may have unwittingly put her finger on more than just how world politics can still be made to work via Trumpian logic, but how the Kingdom of Heaven & the Hell of Earth have kept from blowing up after it all started with that famous explosion. Consider that God is the ultimate micro-manager of His seemingly chaotic universe. Surely, the Big Bang theory – and all the chaos as well as order that inevitably comes out of it -- is still the consensus scientific model for the origin & evolution of the universe. Was it a mere coincidence Peggy intuitively concluded that Mr. Trump’s thinking “outside the box” and/or going with the flow of world events on a series of hunches is not unlike how the Creator operates? After all, wasn’t it His Son who urged us in His Sermon on the Mount revealing the “Secrets of the Universe” not to worry so much about personal needs let alone worldly affairs because God’s got it covered from the get-go? “Look at the birds of the air,” Jesus advised. “They do not sow or reap or store away in barns & yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?" In sum, "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Amen.

Davd Soul