Every morning the headlines drive us deeper into an existential funk. It seems as if everyone hates everyone else these days, and it is easy to lose hope.
A regular feature of a daily column I read is entitled “Everything Isn’t Awful,” and typically offers a brief video of cute animals doing cute things with other cute animals. It is trite, of course, but offers a glimmer of goodness in a sea of cynicism and despair.
In a season in which this world tries hard to superimpose its own twisted idea of “goodwill toward men,” the Christian must battle hard to remember the Incarnation, the Light who came to this earth for our Salvation. To that end we offer a handful of early Reflections by the Pond columns that celebrate the true goodness, and true reason for this season.
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