This is a season in which both joy and loneliness can be amplified. Many will reconnect with families and friends to eat and laugh and relax. For others loneliness will be intensified. The very fact that so many families come together and celebrate magnifies their own disconnected lives. When we don’t experience the love of other human beings, the love of God seems equally distant.
But this is exactly what made the life and message of Jesus so significant. In the midst of people going about their daily lives – with the same desires and concerns we have today – while religious thinkers were speculating about a holy god, Jesus confronted us with a new reality.
That is actually very true pastor lea.
Yet while humans seek comfort in the presence of other humans (or some distance from them), the only one who can comfort our hearts and keeps us firm is only the One Who first died and rose again, defeated death for us.