We often go throughout our days harboring grievances or playing the victim when things don’t turn out the way we want. We spend a lot of time dwelling on the negative, often looking for reasons to be sad or depressed. I’ve read of people who respond to obituaries posted on Facebook with overwhelming grief, even when it is not people that they know, or even a “friend of a friend!”. Why do we search for things to make us depressed?Perhaps it is the human condition that started with the Fall and Adam and Eve. They hid their nakedness in shame even when they didn’t know why they were ashamed! Now we continue to dwell on their transgressions for centuries never giving up the nagging grief that we failed.In yesterday’s Gospel reading from Luke 10:17-20, we read a very different story. Jesus has just appointed seventy to go out in pairs to be lights to the rest of the world. Rather than complain about having no
