December 8, 2013 · Matthew 1:18

Love In The City

“In fact sometimes it gets really gritty. It gets something else that rhymes with gritty as well. Because we always talk about Christmas as this time that's glitzy and glamour but it's also people at work parties getting tipsy and hammered. Stammering and yammering, clamoring just for a little feeling of real love. In the midst of the season we know that's what it's all about but we just don't get it. You look in the city and there's a lot of people that do not get real love, and so we have news titles as I look on the internet things like drunk Santa caught on CCTV urinating and falling over repeatedly and it gets a lot of hits. We have Santa robbing banks. Stealing Salvation Army money. We have lineups at the food banks. This is the underbelly of Christmas. Beyond the holly jolly jelly candies the rotund bellies and costumes beyond the ho and writing Christmas cards everyone that the suicide rates skyrocket at this time here. If the sidewalks are chock full of hurting homeless broken hearts every advent we speak about the birth of Jesus and how it brings love and we look at Black Friday and all we do is push and shove. There seems to be this discrepancy between what we celebrate and how it's celebrated between God's act of sweet love and the streets lack of the above.”