Emphasis Preaching Journal

To be human means to suffer. The time after Christmas can be a depressing and difficult time. The house was full of love and joy on Christmas Day, but now, everyone has gone home; the tree seems bare and lonely. For some, Christmas Day was not a day of joy, but a time of family discord, too much drinking, or just another lonely day. There is a great Dennis the Menace cartoon that shows Dennis on the floor in front of the Christmas tree, surrounded by mountains of wrapping paper and hundreds of opened presents. He looks up at his parents and says loudly, "Is this all?"
-- Owen-Gemoets