Love Actually

Love Actually
JUDGES 16:1-21

After the incident a few weeks ago when a man on a plane bound for Detroit tried to blow up himself and the plane as an act of terrorism against the United States and the Western world in general, an extraordinary piece of background to the event emerged. A few months before, his father (a respected leader in his country) had contacted the U.S. embassy and security agencies in his country to talk to them about his son’s “extreme religious views” and about his fear that his son was “planning something.” A reporter commented, “I almost feel sorry for the Dad.” My reaction is, “Almost?” What must the father have felt about the course his son’s life had taken? What must his mother have felt? And what must they have felt when the news broke of their son’s action and the narrow averting of a terrible calamity?...