Everybody sucks.

It is very easy for my heart to go here.  i find cynicism and despair are always hanging around the dark corners of my house like mafia soldiers, smoking cigarettes and chucking cards into a hat, waiting for the order to do something worthy of their spite and pent up rage.

Lord, everyone is a liar but you died for us liars.  You died so we might be given the Spirit of Truth.  So we may rest in your finished work and be given new hearts, new eyes, new ears.  So we may speak truth in love with all the grace our God has shown to us!  Hard truth but in love.  That we may be honest people, humble people.  Lord, drag cynicism and despair from among your people, clean those corners, and may faith, hope and joy come lodge here in their place.  But most of all, may You come and dwell in our midst.  Amen and amen.