Go ahead, be countercultural! Wish someone a Merry Christmas and mean every bit of what that means for their lives. Merry Christmas runs counter to the broken world we experience every day, and while that may be offensive to some who don’t have spiritual life, it is the antidote for a struggling world.
After surveying the news headlines on social media earlier this week, I commented audibly, though no one was in the room, “What a mess”. The war in Ukraine was approaching the three years, with millions suffering and dislocated. Over a million killed or seriously injured. An unjust Syrian dictator culminated 15 years of crumbling rot in a spectacular 11-day collapse, leaving a former Islamic jihadist group is semi-control of the country. Messy world!
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