I was listening to "Speaking of Faith", a radio program I download, not that long ago called "Evangelicals Out of the Box". One thing I have been thinking about over and over is something they said in the program "...evangelical Christian voices seem to emphasize private morality over public morality and social justice."

Yes, I should be good person, be kind to my wife & kids - honest at my job. Things that are close to me. There is a lot in the Bible that points that way like in Luke 6:31 "And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise." As I have written before here, if we all have good relationships with everyone, then this world would be a great place to live. But I'm so focus on the people right around me that I forget that there are others that are not so visible. People that need help in one way or the other. Is my responsibility only to my family and friends or does it extend to my neighborhood and society? I think to often "it's not my problem" or "what will they think". I need to get out of my privat little box and get more public.

I was just reading about how in Australia young people used sms's to rally people together against Muslims. It seems that SMS's are used in a lot of different ways to gather people together to protest or fight against something. What about gathering people together to do something good. In bigger cities have a SMS happening by taking food out to the homeless or cleaning up some part of a city that need a good cleaning!

There must be someway to use SMS to do something good instead of beating up Muslims!

I was at a friends house yesterday, enjoying newly made Christmas cookies and homemade candy. We started talking about how problems in families go from one generation to the other. A girl that has experience violence in the home will marry a man that is violent and even if she leaves him she will find another that is the same. In the same way a man that has experienced violence from his father will be that way when he becomes a father. We talk about how do they break out of that circle. The system in Denmark is that the State offers counseling ect. But it does not seem to work very well. Then my friend said they need a model, they need to see - live with a family that is happy. They will not learn how to be a good parents by just going to courses or counseling. But where are the families that will open their homes? Am I willing? Is my home an example to follow!