Ken Burns: The Civil War

Tonight I finished watching the last episode in the nine part series.  I've been watching them for the past few weeks as I rented them from Netflix. This documentary was excellent and very moving.  It's amazing how defining this era was to our national conscience.  I highly recommend it to everyone. While affirming the Sovereign God, from a human perspective, if we do not learn from history, then we are doomed to repeat its mistakes. So much for what we fight and clamor for is so vain and fleeting. It's just another reminder of the futility that we live under. The futility that wrecks some and humbles others. It can lead us to seek great glory for ourselves in a whirlwind of selfish exploits designed to deny our mortality or it can drive us to seek the glory of Another; to seek the glory of the One who created us for His own purposes. The One whose greatest passion is Himself, and who demonstrates His own love by laying down His life for us. Men have fought for centuries for tracts of land and great wealth only to lose them to some stronger group. Great men and women will rise and fall, kingdoms will reign then crumble, I will live and die, but God's truth is marching on.