What is your profound disappointment?

Zechariah and Elizabeth were faithful people of God who lived with profound disappointment.

What is your profound disappointment?

The Christmas Season, we are told, is the leading time of worldwide depression. People not even given to depression, can be depressed at Christmas. Amidst all the Christmas cheer and joy, people sink further and further into despair. Could it be that the emphasis on giving and getting, serve somewhere deep within us; even if we are not conscious of the thought, of something we wanted and have not gotten?

What Zechariah and Elizabeth wanted, was something other people easily had. 

Disappointment can become a stronghold. We can become convinced that this is our lot; we can come to expect it; and we can come to just except it. We can become so preoccupied with our disappointments; we can really lose sight of what we really do have. We can become really fixated on disappointment, and not happy until we are disappointed. Always let down. We just make ourselves martyrs to disappointment. We can get to where disappointment just makes itself right at home with us.