Chuck Colson Addresses Blagojevich

[Maestroh]

Good points we would all do well to remember.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/10/colson.corruption/index.html

[TigerBunny]

Good points we would all do well to remember.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/10/colson.corruption/index.html

Wow...that's an awesome article as well as witness.





Tragically, America is continuing to rear its young to become not only self-obsessed, but obsessed with personal power. Quaint-sounding virtues such as courage, honesty and prudence -- historically considered the elements of character -- are no match for a society in which the exaltation and gratification of self becomes the overriding goal of life.

If Blagojevich is guilty, the best thing that could happen to him is to be tried and convicted. He's going to have to reach rock bottom -- just as I did -- before he will be able to escape his own prison of pride, self-delusion and self-righteousness. But that's a transformation we can never accomplish on our own. I can vouch for the fact that human pride is simply too strong.

Lewis was right: Pride is a spiritual cancer. And the only cure, for any of us, is to stop looking down and to look up. The cure can only be brought about in someone who has come to realize that the will and power to do good and not evil comes from God alone.