Having lived a while now, and having experienced a bit of the world, I have come to a few conclusions. The cynic will probably not agree; I don’t expect him to. Like many of us, he will take the easy way out by consuming mainstream complacency. But with a little courage and investigation, I think most of us will arrive at conclusions similar to these:

One: We are ALL fundamentally good. We are not inheritors of someone else’s sin or members of a fallen race. We are not born deficient but rather complete and fully capable of living lives of purpose. We are not born under the mark or seal of judgment, but rather the freedom of grace.

Two: The world is a relatively safe place. Despite the anomalies that make Fox News, CNN, and Internet headlines, there is far more order than there is chaos…