"Full Contact Christmas Shopping"
Something about what is happening these days makes us wonder what we have become. Looters raid a house where the owner's belongings have been put out on the street and the police have to fend off the drivers who want to stop and pick up something that doesn't belong to them makes us embarrassed to witness the greed and sad to see the breakdown of a home.
The Bronco football team has a videographer filming another team's practice session to gain advantage and potentially a victory makes us ponder what good it means to win if we have to cheat.
Someone took a bag of money that was to pay for toys for children who will have no Christmas gifts in Denver. A motorcycle group has been working all year to raise over $1200. $800 of that was lost.
A man in Buffalo, New York was almost trampled to death when he fell trying to break through the line of shoppers on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
John the Baptist called the people of his time "a brood of vipers" and he told them to repent.
The word repent is a good word for us. It means, "turn around" and it invites us to think about what we have become and who we are.
If we turn around and look at ourselves what will we find?
Are we too concerned about things that are not that important?
Are we too unconcerned about things that should garner our attention?
Have we become angry at life? or bored?
Advent is a time to turn around.
What do you think? Write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have other people read your thoughts click on the 'comment's box below.
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Charles Schuster
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