The Waiting Place

On ANZAC Day Clay Nelson reflects on how traditional Christianity keeps us in Dr Seuss' "The Waiting Place" when it comes to peace. "Today is a day the peoples of Australia and New Zealand spend a lot of time remembering. We remember and seek understanding of the tragic death of so many of our young men on the shores of Gallipoli 95 years ago. For both countries it was a coming of age moment that continues to shape us in the present day. We sent the better part of a generation to war with great fanfare and expectation, but when more than a third did not return buried on foreign soil and many more returned emotionally and physically wounded something fundamental changed in our national psyche. It left us in The Waiting Place. We became a country waiting for peace." Full text and vidio link at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=534&id=1060.