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Unrest.

I've been doing a lot of reading about the Occupy Wall Street protests, and similarly, the ones that have spread throughout the country and the world. Egypt too is in violent clashes, angry citizens eager for their opinions to be heard and invoke actions to be carried their way. Unrest. An inability to rest. I have struggled over where I stand on these issues. Specifically the Occupy movement. The more I know, the more I understand about the government and economy, the less I am at ease. I begin to understand that there is more going on than my optimistic mind likes to think. The more I beg for Christ to come. These outcries may be legitimate, a desire for hope, a desire for pure motives and actions. But humanity cannot. Cannot be pure. Cannot be good in motive. Even within these good-intentioned protests, we find violence and sin, rape and murder. Perhaps what we cry out for is in fact, the existence of good. Of purity. Of hope. Of a release from evil. We all know that