The Troubling Absence of Color

I am exceedingly troubled.  I am continually confronted with wrongness.  I was at the store the other day and butter was $6.50 for 4 sticks.  My world now proposes what I believe to be true as false.  How can truth become untruth?  The earth is the most dangerous place we know of.  There are evil people controlling vast amounts of power, armies, weapons, and technology.  These people pit themselves against us in all manner of wicked ways.  We also face complex problems revolving around security, border, cyber, economics, and currency as well as the security globally, of countries less secure than ourselves.  Good world leaders must be exceedingly wise, creatively, always several steps ahead.  Their virtuous wisdom must be feared by those whose thoughts are evil.  By all accounts we have elected a leader who struggles with the very basics of wisdom, speaking clearly from a sharp mind.  We elevate silliness to the peak of societal importance and at every turn promote sex as our greatest constitutional need.  We are failing to raise working and sacrificing citizens who see America as worthy of their best efforts.  We have replaced honor with shamefulness, decency with vileness, and sincere devotion to the concept of freedom with the tyranny of destroying freedom.  But what troubles me the most is the tragic lostness of those in utter darkness…for utter black was once my choice of color, the actual absence of color, until, by grace, the Light of the World found me.