Peace

It is Christmas again and I am hoping everyone got all the things that they wanted. In the midst of a declining economy, with the threat of a recession and continued recession, I wonder if it has slowed our consumeristic stride? There seems to be such a drive to buy, spend, and live life like there are no warnings. The surgeon general’s warnings don’t stop most of the hoi polloi from tobacco use and it doesn’t seem as if the recent economical red flags will slow our drive to purchase more stuff. Well, with tobacco use it is an addiction, and so is our consumerism

In our hearts there seems to be a refusal to “stop and listen to the music.” The music that may be playing a melody of loneliness, or boredom, broken relationships, shame and contempt; we all have our songs. If we stopped buying, cooking, laughing, drinking, acting, eating, recreating etc, we would hear the inner clamoring-and then what would happen? We would have to face “IT.”

O the courage to stop, to tune in, to tune in to our heart, hurts and addictions-not keep life on autopilot and take up courage; courage that comes from believing in the man who was tortured and bloodied on a cross. Jesus who the prophet Isaiah spoke of saying, that by his stripes we could be healed.

I hope the baby in the manger is your healer. May we stop, for God’s sake, and our own, to allow Jesus the baby, the man, the bloodied sacrifice, the risen King, to come into our clamoring hearts and bring PEACE.


Love has come and peace is here….

Amen