"And when all the crowds who had gathered there for this spectacle saw what had taken place, they returned home, beating their breasts."(Luke 23:48)
The last movie that I went to see, I left wondering why I had gone to see it. It was pointless, gratuitous in its violence, and ultimately I should have left beating my breast too.
We as a culture are often attracted to the macabre. We'll slow down and look at a car wreck, if there's a fire truck we'll watch a building burn. We can watch endless news clips of disasters. We may even get caught up in a mob mentality.
But when the initial rush is over and we realize how we have not actually made the situation better, and in fact have just lost a part of our life that we aren't getting back.
Blessings,
Ed
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