tember 2026

HEAVY HEARTS

News channels, pulpits, newspapers, social media, magazines and politics sell us anxiety around the clock. It seems worry and fear sell and give profit to someone. We are trained to receive this anxiety as normal. We are taught to live on the edge, not to butter up this awful life we have. This is crazy thinking and crazier living. Get away from these negative energy drinks and the people who drink them and the people who sell them.

Faith is normal for the believer. Not head in-the-sand faith…. Faith in a Father who cares for his children. Our faith is to reform, repair and represent the fullness of hope and future for our generation. We are to lift the heavy burden off others, not to encourage it or help load them up with worry and news clips of hopelessness. We bring light, not darkness. We bring Good News, not bad news. It brings to mind David,

“For David, after serving God’s purpose in his own generation, fell asleep (died)” (Acts 13:36). We do as David, serve God’s purpose faithfully in our time, our generation until we croak.

As Wendell Berry, poet, novelist and farmer wrote:

“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.”

We might need to change channels…

“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with…the anxieties of life.” Jesus