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Misplaced Hope This Christmas?

nativityThe distractions are many.

At best the economy feels fragile, though for some it has collapsed. Many of us are hustling to keep our current jobs or secure our next job before this one disappears.

The holidays are upon us with their strange mix of frantic activity and pronounced loneliness. We feel fragile ourselves.

This year we prepare for the arrival of yet another politician who has promised hope and change. We greet the possibility as if this were the first time a world leader has ever offered such, and we look forward with enthusiasm to the coming inauguration of a better future.

Interesting that during this particular Christmas season we are looking to the most powerful leader in the world (maybe even in the history of the world) for hope instead of the powerless infant of Bethlehem.

Understandable, but the story of hope and change through the centuries has oddly accompanied the powerless, not the powerful.

Powerful world leaders come and go, but the memory, impact and inspiration of one particular child endures.

Before you rely on the reigns of power as a source of hope, consider the Christ child who was born powerless and died powerless, and who has inspired life- and world-changing hope for millennia.



Here's My Thought...


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