The Value of a Human Life

Life in this day and age seem to be loosing its value more and more as days go by. It kinda makes you wonder how can life that is precious mean so little to some people. Lou Rawls back in the day sang a song that said, "what's the matter with the world, has the world gone mad, ain't nothing wrong with the world, it's just the people that's in it." It couldn't be any truer a statement. God created this world a paradise. All we have to do is reflect on the beautiful world around us to concur with this fact. I believe in the creation story as the way the world was formed. I choose to believe that account than that of Darwin's theory of evolution. The thing that people tend to forget is that a theory is speculation based on a "trying to understand." When Darwin was trying to understand, verify or even challenge creation, he got a whole ton of people going along with him on this ride. He proposes to explain what he believes to be so based on a scientific method that he used to find proof of the existence of God. However the Genesis account of the creation story is stemmed in a simple belief, not just some complicated scientific, philosophical theory of trying to prove something that the human mind cannot comprehend anyway. It is as simple as that.

The webnetweb.Princeton.edu defines a theory as such, " well substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world or an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of hypothesis; a tentative insight into the natural world, a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena." So based on this explanation of the meaning of theory, it just goes to show that Darwin cannot explain away how God created the heavens and the earth and everything in it. He can explain what he believes or think but the essence of life and God's creation he cannot explain. God created life, from the beginning and I believe it. I rather believe that than accept the fact that I evolved from a darn monkey. I was created in the image and likeness of God who is a Spirit being. But saying that I do believe in the evolution of people. By this I mean people evolving and progressing into becoming better human beings at who and what they really are. I have evolved into a better person. Motherhood did that for me. The person that I was many years ago is not the same person I am today. So we are all evolving or at least we should.

Life is about change and being better. Having said all that, it still seems that life is valueless. When I heard about the young couple that were gunned down in Jersey City after coming from their engagement party by some teens who just wanted to know what it feels like to kill somebody, it just makes you wonder. At this point Darwin's theory cannot explain to me why this happened. But being a created being I understand how this could happen even though I cannot understand why it happened. There is a quote in the bible that said, "the heart is desperately wicked, who can know it." Only a wicked heart could do something like that. It wasn't about the car they jacked or they wouldn't have killed the victims. It was the fact that these teens did not know the value of a human life. Sadly they didn't even know the value of their own lives.

So how do we live in a world with so much evil? One thing I'd say is not live in fear but live right, love everyday and live with purpose. It was said that this young couple were people who did just that. Even though there are no real answers to these questions, we can only say some of the things that help us cope, statements such as, " the good die young," "they were too good for this world," or "they were just angels in the midst of us." Whilst we live amongst evil we have to find ourselves living in a conscious state of mind knowing that it is "appointed unto man once to die......" It isn't so much about living life everyday as if it's our last because that is burdensome. Just live everyday trying to do the right things: making amends with people, find that long lost friend, forgive somebody you need to release, let go of unnecessary baggage, live light by not taking everything seriously if it's not meant to be, take a vacation, have fun with the people you love, detox your spirit and choose to rid yourself or bad vibes and bad blood, and stay connected with God. We don't have all the answers and we never will so the prayer of St Francis of Assisi is a great mantra to live by, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference."
Much love and blessings