Thursday, December 13, 2012

The Light blazes in a dark world

I've got the Pandora radio Christmas station playing, still desperately grabbing at some Christmas cheer or a Christmas feeling.

And on comes Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, sung by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. One of the world's most famous Scientologists is singing Christmas songs. Am I the only one who finds that a bit, uh, weird?

Things are so difficult right now around the world. Difficulty and pain doesn't take a holiday for holidays.

Heck, even Storage Wars is faked, according to Dave Hester, one of the main "stars" of the reality show that was recently let go.

"Storage Wars" is the most watched show on A&E, and one of the most popular shows on television. It's one of the highest-rated programs on cable, and has been on for four seasons. The show "follows an eclectic group of modern day treasure hunters who earn their living attending public auctions of the contents of abandoned storage lockers in the hopes of finding buried treasure in those lockers, which they can then resell for a profit," according to the lawsuit filed by Hester.
 
What next? Duck Dynasty beards are fake?
 
Seriously, we've got another shooting, this time in a mall. We've got a Fiscal Cliff coming up soon. Times are still exceedingly tough.
 
Where is the reason for the season in all this?
 
John's Gospel tells us this: Everything was created through him;
nothing—not one thing!—
came into being without him.
What came into existence was Life,
and the Life was Light to live by.
The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness;
the darkness couldn’t put it out.
 
 
Christmas spirit comes from acknowledging the Light came to blaze out of darkness, and it still does.
 
 

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