Washington L ife is difficult. Those were the simple words used by Scott Peck to begin his best selling book, The Road Less Traveled. Even on a night like this when our focus is on the beauty, joy, love, and peace that come through the Christmas story, life is still difficult.
Life can be difficult because of unresolved inner turmoil in our own hearts and minds.
It can be difficult because of broken relationships with people who are important to us. Life is also difficult whenever we lift our eyes beyond our personal world to the raging turmoil around us. And on the global scale we see how difficult life is for people in the midst of unending poverty or political oppression. As you know, our special Christmas offering is going in part to feed people in Moscow where the cold and the economic collapse have left so many people destitute. Life is difficult.