What is wrong with the world today?

We first heard the news from my wife, Jackie's hairdresser who told her that the woman was brain dead.

It was pretty depressing that the accident had happened in the first place, but even more so that we were informed by a hairdresser! I was an intelligence analyst in the CIA; I'm supposed to know things!

So, it probably wasn't true.

I mean how could a hairdresser know about things that weren't even in the paper yet?

Then sure enough, I pick up the paper today to see that, yet again, hairdressers are pretty much clued in to everything.

Natasha Richardson, esteemed stage and screen actress, wife of Liam Neesom, dead at 45 from a fall on a bunny slope.

That's right... a bunny slope.

Somehow, we just know, don't we, that this isn't right?

We know Liam knows it isn't supposed to be this way. We know Natasha's two kids know it isn't supposed to be this way.

How can we make sense of something like this?

And for those who believe in God, there's this tendency to look toward the sky and ask: What are you thinking? Are you even thinking? Are you aware of what's going on down here?

Good questions, but are there good answers?

We'll give it a shot Sunday at 11:00 at 1988 Kirby Road in McLean.

The topic? Why is the World So Messed Up? Perspective is everything.

To get a head start open to the first story in the Bible - Genesis 1.

Or, if nothing bad has ever happened to you or anyone you know, feel free to take a pass on this one. I'm sure we'll do a message on "Being in Denial" soon.