Think About It

What are we talking about these days? A few weeks ago, if you told me that COVID would almost disappear from our daily conversation I would have been beaming, but now things like violence, inflation and the Russian/Ukrainian conflict dominate our discussions. It’s almost like we can never get ahead – or could it be that we just like to stay stirred up? We will never be calm because calmness doesn’t sell newspapers or gain followers on social media. We complain about being emotionally drained, but are we doing it to ourselves? The other day I came across an interesting proverb, “Anxiety wears down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up.” (Proverbs 12:25). We say we want to feel better, but is that being evidenced by what we discuss? What would happen if, rather than constantly focusing on what’s going on the world around us, we complimented the people closest to us? How would things change if we told our children how much we loved them or thanked the clerk at the local grocery