The Bad News Blues

I don't know what the ringer is, but I feel like I've been through it in the last few weeks. Maybe it is the wringer, which would be more appropriate, as I feel like a sponge that has been twisted and squeezed until every last bit of levity has been wrung out. I've been hearing a lot of bad news lately, and not much good news. I guess its a case of the bad news blues I don't think it is right to ignore or deny the bad things (we want to weep with those who weep and carry each others' burdens), but we must find joy and comfort in the fact that everything is in God's loving control. Sometimes finding joy really means fighting for joy. Only when we let our faith battle it out with our doubts and disappointments will joy come out victorious every time.