Monday, January 6, 2014

The most depressing day of the year!

The news this morning announced that the Guardian, a London newspaper, has labeled this day the most depressing day of the year - the day when more divorces are filed, than any other, and the day when all of us face the (I guess) depressing realities of our lives.  Perhaps, some speculate, that this is the first day back to work and school and our daily routines after the Christmas holidays.  Perhaps it is the reality of the weather - winter is most decidedly here, for those of us in the northeast.  It's grey, and cold, and snowy and icy.  Perhaps its the fact that all those Christmas bills are now coming due and payable.  And of course, with the holidays over, the decorations put away, our homes no longer sparkle in the candlelight and the glow from the Christmas tree.  And perhaps we're facing the reality of what happens when we have an extra piece of pie, or one more drink.

But Holy Scripture says, this is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it!  (Psalm 118:24)  All days belong to God; our lives are bound to the One who transcends days and time and whose birth among us we celebrated 12 days ago.  This is God's day, for you - to be the new creation in Christ that we are called to be by virtue of our baptisms.

May this day, and all the ones that follow, be ones of blessing and peace and joy.