Complaining.

"We circumvent our feelings through an angry sound,
He who complains the loudest, wears the fattest crown.
We're anti-everybody, call it paranoia,
Well I ain't no judge or jury, but I'm praying for ya ..."

These lyrics from DC Talk describe how I've been feeling lately.

It is so easy for all of us (humans) to simply complain about things without having any intention of doing something about a problem. We get the idea that all the world's against us and no one else can understand.

I think it's one result of sin, that people have some deep feeling of being alone. We become isolated in a cloud of sin and lies believe that we are all on our own. Sin makes us turn away from God and towards ourselves, so that even when it makes us "happy," we are only making ourselves more miserable. This is a trick of the Devil.

In the simple but brilliant words of Five Iron Frenzy's Reese Roper, "YOU ARE NEVER ALONE." We are all in this together, and even more significant, God is always with us.

There's a thunderstorm passing over Latrobe right now. But, as always, there are clear skies above it - just like in our lives.