I never truly get in the Christmas spirit. I try. I try really hard but it just never gels. I can't really name what it is that keeps me blue. Maybe it's because this world is pretty unfair. There are good people out there without even the most basic necessities and truly evil people out there with more than they need.
But those boundaries aren't always solid. Because there are certainly people who are good, giving people who have abundance in their lives. And there are those who, in our estimation, may deserve having next to nothing. There are God filled people with barely a roof over their heads and those who denie God with coffers over flowing.
There is no way to predict what happens here on earth. How things shake out down here is largely based on blind luck or absolute miracle. Don't get me wrong some people, most people, work very hard for what they have. It's a crap shoot. And I don't like thinking that because I believe in God. I further believe He bestows abundance on us. Sometimes when I look around though, I find it hard to believe God would bless some of these people. Being the forgivness business, I guess He knows more what He's doing than I ever could.
I guess I'm just lost. I feel it more so this time of the year than any other. The lines between the haves and the have nots just seems to be a little more harsh at Christmas time. I think that's because it is just sooooo commercial. Everyone wants the coolest and latest. It seems a lot of people feel really entitled to get the coolest and the latest without really earning it.
Like a lot of people I feel that our priorities have been so skewed for so long I don't think we can find our way back. Even people of God are running around killing themselves to get the greatest and the latest for their kids. Their kids who coudn't careless what it is to earn anything but who are entitled to take. I see this in my family (kids/grown ups....myself even) and I see it widespread.
Raise a glass, here's hoping we can all find our way back. :: clink ::
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