Darkness of the century or the Light of Eternity?

It seems that ever since the nineties rolled around that he world and especially the US trend has become chaos, panic, and outrage. It doesn’t matter which however there is always one in play either in our own lives or on the news. I am aware that this has been going on, however looking back through my AP US history class I begin to wonder if this is simply the by-product of a new and united news front and mass culture or the result of a rotten world falling on the ground between chaos panic and outrage.
To start with there is the continuing issue of the wars going on in the Middle East and the terrorism that is a result of such actions and beliefs held there. There is the Iraqi war, which by the way the first Bush did not help in any way whatsoever (I think we are on the verge of another pentagon papers incident with the Bush administrations.), which has been going on for some time now. Not only are we looking at the chaos and the panic that people are facing overseas and here on the domestic front however there are those that are outraged due to the lack of “progress” being made on the Iraqi front. However what they fail to realize is that we funded the Iraqi army by giving them their weapons in the 1990’s in order to fight Iran. However this seemed to have backfired on us.
On top of this we have the swine flu going on. Not only the first, but the third pandemic of this flu(http://timklean.blogspot.com/2009/05/h1n1-pandemic-of-influenza-or-epidemic.html). This flu is turning out to be a little more than just some by-the-by ordeal that will simply pass over, considering that a second life has been claimed by the flu thus far and has hundreds more cases popping around the US.
So here’s my question for those of you out there that are actually reading this. What are we doing in order to make this world a better place? We may not be able to go and win a battle, or go out into the medical field and make a ground breaking invention. However I firmly believe that we can care for those around us. Instead of getting into all this politically correct mumbo jumbo, let’s simply care for those that are around us. Not by “Random Acts of Kindness” , but by “Constant Acts of Kindness”.
Instead of being bogged down with the troubles of this world let’s be the light that Jesus Christ said that we were meant to be. Let’s no longer be the “Casual Christians” “Waiting on the world to change” instead let’s change the world, person by person, and let God do the rest.