We are living at a time when many of the gifted young are beginning to suspect that their fluid intelligence, powerful and creative as it is, is not enough, and are seeking the crystallized treasures that they were once taught by fellow influencers were a waste of time.

A donkey says power isn’t what you think it is. Mercy is power. Virtue is power. Healing is power. Power isn’t the ability to make someone submit, but to make someone whole.

When families and parishes, schools and universities, hospitals and missions, are focused on the living God and Him alone, the cultures they create will form billions of people for centuries, even as civilizations, empires, republics, and presidents rise and fall.

People started to think that the power to heal, the power to feed wasn’t Jesus’ power, but their own. They taught their children the same, and hung a millstone around their own necks and in the 20th century they plunged into an ocean of blood. The power to heal became the power to kill – kill even the very, very young. The power to feed became the power to intoxicate, and kill millions more.