Scripture
Matthew 24:44
Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalms 122:1-9; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:37-44
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About this time of year in 1997, Washington Post journalist, Laura Britt, wrote a column entitled, “Christmas Blues.” In it, she tells of a telephone call she received from a woman who said that the Christmas Season was “Just the very worst time … there are more suicides … more people are institutionalized.”
“Think of it,” wrote Ms. Britt,
We live in a peaceful nation in a largely prosperous time, but few of us seem truly happy. Secure behind locked doors, linked by faxes, pagers and cellular phones, connected by E-mail, some of us have never felt more scared or alone.
How do we reconcile Christmas tidings of comfort and joy with the hatreds and horrors presented us by TV Shows, Movies, News, and the Internet? The more sophisticated our communications systems become, the more awful stuff they reveal to us.
But if we’re paralyzed by all that’s bad, we’ll fail to see what’s good in our lives. Christmas isn’t out of tune with…
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