Living in an unGodly society...just a short one this time...
by Christine
It's a daily struggle. I'm surrounded. I stand in line at the grocery store with headlines staring me in the face. Too much information that I don't want to know about. I would really like to take every magazine and shred it into tiny pieces so that no one will be tempted to look at them. I feel overwhelmed with sadness when I see a woman purchasing a couple of "newspapers" along with her snacks. Does her enquiring mind really want to know this stuff? Wouldn't she be happier reading about a saviour instead? I want to stop her before she heads off to sit surrounded by her loneliness reading all the sensational garbage. I want to scream "Stop wasting your money and listen...there is someone who wants to replace your pain and sadness with love and laughter. He wants to take you in his arms and let you know that you are worthwhile and that He will be there to help you through whatever it is you're going through..." But of course I say nothing. I just look away, waiting my turn to pay for my low fat groceries and get back to work. Ah yes...work...how futile that is. What am I doing? I sit at my desk punching numbers into various spreadsheets day in and day out...not making a difference in the world. How I long to do that (make a difference...) but I'm so busy trying to get through the piles of paperwork on my desk that I don't have energy for anything else. All around me I see people who need YOU!!! They hide it well with their coarse joking and shallow musings but I know that deep down they need to have the weight of sin lifted from their shoulders. Maybe tomorrow I'll actually reach out to someone and let them know there's more to life than what they are living...maybe tomorrow?
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