Oddly enough you do get an "I'm safe" feeling from the inexhaustable supply and safe haven in the wilderness, or angel camps. And you don't look for other ways you might change things. Perhaps I took it wrong and others would not, but I don't think so because of our common humanity.
I'm working from the gut here, Cub, without a clear idea of what I'm getting at. But I do have a clear idea of how we act when we follow Leary. It becomes a waiting game and we are not active participants in what is going on in the world. Yes, we share, food and faith, and we pray and do penance, but we are essentially outside of it all. Maybe that's just what we should be, but then, maybe it's not. I just have this niggling feeling that this world needs saints and martyrs, people who lay everything on the line, you know.
I guess I'm referring to the whole book of Joel, but, of course, the happy part is the last chapter, where even the weak say, "I am strong". That's active participation in this war. If we would just start doing something about this awful tide of evil it would be less awful. Like recalling or otherwise removing the politicians and judges who betray our trust. Zeal for the House and the Laws of the Lord. Now I'm on my :soapbox: Sorry. But so many people think the law is the ruler of right and wrong, and we are letting the ruler be bent totally out of shape.