Every year when the Muzak floats throughout the stores, I’m a little bit irritated by (1) the manipulation (make em happy so they’ll buy more) but (2) it seems that every store got their Muzak from the same source so we hear the same songs from the same artists from the same year over and over and over again.
It’s a small irritation, and I’m sure there are others for whom the rocking around the Christmas tree brings a level of pleasure. But, next time you’re out and about, pause a moment and take a non-creepy good look around you. There are people around you who are like the walking dead, and not just the ones who look like it. Inside, they are hurting. The hurt is real any time of the year, but in this season of one holiday after another, of lengthening dark days and cold nights, of twinkling lights everywhere and social media posts of perfected happy family or curated home images, the provocation to despair may be extra burdensome. My heart has been especially burdened for hurting people this season, and perhaps provoked by the NOT helpful things the world at large offers.
Perhaps you feel this topic doesn’t apply to you. I assure you that it does. For even if your struggles have been light, it doesn’t mean it will always be so. And it doesn’t mean you don’t know someone close to you that either isn’t currently struggling, or that one day there may be. Truth be told, you WILL suffer at some point, if not yet. It’s part of the human experience, and you will not be immune. Either someone or something in the world will hurt you, or you will by your own sinful nature do something to bring on your own pain. Most often, sadly, we suffer both. Sin taints everything and everyone.
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