Eliot Spitzer

I suppose it would be easy for some to point fingers at New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who is vehemently pro-abortion, and talk about another Democrat lacking a moral compass or somesuch comment.

The fact is that the whole situation is just sad.

Very sad.

In this month's issue of Touchstone Magazine, Senior Editor Russell D. Moore reviewed Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography about Charles M. Schulz. He writes:

[T]his book is anything but inspirational. . .it is, like the Peanuts strip itself, a kind of modern-day Ecclesiastes. In the biblical text, Solomon grasps at pleasure, wisdom, labor, prosperity, and finds that, "Vanity of vanities. . .all is vanity" (Eccl. 12:8).

Indeed, as [author David] Michaelis argues, this was the reason for the strip's success. Schulz's public, "consisted of good, plain people who felt guilty at being discontented in an epoch of unprecedented prosperity. Peanuts struck a chord with those who had thought they had everything they wanted only to discover that they didn't. . ."

We often think that if we had a little more power or profit, a bigger more expensive car, more jewelry or a nicer home that we would be happy but, as Solomon discovered, it's all empty.

I think Governor Spitzer, for all his power and wealth, discovered that "all is vanity." He was searching for the one thing that seemed to elude him-- that gave meaning to life. It's not money, sex, power, love or any other thing-- it's God.