It's an UGLY World

Sometimes, being in the business of a criminal defense law practice, it hits home to Andy and I just what an ugly world we live in. By that I mean how much sin has caused pain and sorrow for so many people - really, for everybody. But, it just seems that some people get hit with more of it than others.

This was actually an especially hard day, learning the back ground of a client in an amount of detail that is just shocking. Makes you want to get on your knees right away and pray - prayers of help for the people you heard about, prayers of thanksgiving for being spared that kind of a life, and prayers of sorrow for the fact that our world has come to where it is. I just want to cry out to God, but in some ways I'm not really sure what to say.

Here is my picture for today, January 7. I shot it this morning before I knew about the ugliness Andy would be exposed to in the afternoon interview. It's a building behind the beautiful new library in Bozeman.

It just struck me this morning how ironic it is to have the beautiful new (like opened in the last 18 months) library (see last two posts and below) sitting in the middle of old run down buildings. But, Bozeman is like that - lots of juxtaposition of beauty and ugly, old and new, modern and outdated, smart and stupid. I guess that's part of what makes life here so interesting.

I also shot these two photos this morning while waiting for the library to open. The one above shows the back of the library from the ridge behind it where there is a "metro" walking trail. The one below is a house in a neighborhood sort of behind the library, and it's green color against the grey of everything else today was striking to me, so I shot a frame or two of it.

Hope this isn't too much of a downer post, but sometimes you have days where you just can't escape the ugliness. And really, it is probably pretty important to be aware because otherwise we can't help, reach out, relate, or pray for those in need.