Lost in a Haunted Wood

By |Published On: January 17, 2019|Categories: 1-Minute Radio Program|

Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada and sometimes at night, after I’ve spoken, and I wheel back through the hotel lobby, I will pass the bar – it’s loud, noisy, and full of people. Some of them looking bored, some fingering their drink, others laughing, it seems for silly reasons. It breaks my heart and it always reminds me of WH Alden’s poem, “Faces along the bar cling to their average day. The light must never go out; the music must always play, lest we know who we are, lost in a Haunted Wood, children afraid of the dark who have never been happy or good.

Proverbs 16 says, “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.” No verse better describes the plight of man without God in his life: bored, empty and itching for mischief. Sadly, without God, we keep searching for something that fills the void. So, if you’re toying with temptation, remember: God is the answer to your longings. 

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