Just saw "Million Dollar Baby". No wonder the Academy nominated it for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, etc: it is brilliant (and I don't use that word lightly or often). It raises those difficult questions like, what is life? And who or what determines when one is living or is not living? Is there ever an instance when we as humans get to decide that for someone else?

There are no easy answers to these questions. It just isn't black and white, yes or no, right or wrong. When the political right and political left, the theologically conservative and theologically liberal can stand and finally say, "this is difficult," I will listen but until then I will push aside their empty rhetoric and I will plead with God to give us some hints about what it means to live fully here on this earth.