Something to consider is the plague of depression that has pervaded this new generation. We’ve read, seen, and listened to all the suffering happening in the world: the war over Ukraine, the endless struggle in the Middle East, the homes and lives of our countrymen and women destroyed by flooding and fire. These catastrophes are not where the despondency lies – there has always been a great outpouring of love and support from all generations and all classes when the need rises. Rather, the despondency and growing rage of a generation is forming over the actions of the powerful greedy: when CEOs draft the laws over who is allowed funding to live (and how comfortably, too – like the child who was denied coverage for their anti-emetics while on chemo), or how Canada is beginning to investigate themselves for euthanize those whose basic social needs (food, housing, etc) are unable to be met.

The people today are primed like a powder keg for the Good News – very much like the people of Jesus’ time. And the question again remains that will we hear the real glad tidings when it comes, or will we be drawn to another’s honeyed words, so desperate are we for s justice that only God can give?