Holiday Blues

The Good News Today Is...."You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly." Rom 5:6 This is what I came up with while I was frowning at the headlines this morning. Shootings in Walmart, worker gets trampled in Walmart - Black Friday. These headlines are exactly why I live out in the sticks, and why I don't go shopping on Black Friday. I try to shelter myself from some of the ugliness of the world. Yet it seeps in, and that's when I have to remind myself that Christ died for the ungodly just as much as for the believer. Unnecessary death - it gives a whole new meaning to holiday blues. May there be mercy abounding in the midst of the hurt.