Can we live in a snowglobe?
I am willing to guess that you are not very familiar with this Christmas song. It lives on the darker side. It is called Snowglobe. This starts out very pleasant. Depicting life inside a snowglobe; a perfect life straight from a Christmas card. This is what we want Christmas to be. This perfect little season of joy and gift giving. We look forward to it all year. But once it is here we can’t wait for it to be over. All the parties and the checklists and the joyless days There's a reason it's all so exhausting Where's the meaning? Where's the wonder? Where's the dreaming? All this busyness bleeding the season dry Is this not exactly what Satan does? Turn the things we want to be joyful about into these dark, exhausting, meaningless parts of our lives. This season that we claim is all about giving we have turned into getting the best things for ourselves. Or into making sure we are the one person to give the best gift. This is the season when the world...