{"id":20094,"date":"2015-09-12T08:46:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T13:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=20094"},"modified":"2015-09-12T08:46:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T13:46:12","slug":"bad-news-overload-and-living-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2015\/09\/bad-news-overload-and-living-locally.html","title":{"rendered":"Bad News Overload and Living Locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_20095\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20095\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/149\/2015\/09\/whole-world.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20095\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/149\/2015\/09\/whole-world-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"He's Got the Whole World in His Hands\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He\u2019s Got the Whole World in His Hands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The other day a parishioner was stressed out because of all the bad news in the world.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Muslim immigration-invasion of Europe<\/li>\n<li>Demographic Winter<\/li>\n<li>Abortion<\/li>\n<li>World Poverty<\/li>\n<li>Pollution<\/li>\n<li>Government Corruption<\/li>\n<li>Disintegration of Marriage and Family<\/li>\n<li>Gross Immorality<\/li>\n<li>Increasing Godlessness<\/li>\n<li>Violence and Murder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know how it feels. We read all the bad news every day and things seem to be getting worse and worse. We get bad news overload. We get compassion fatigue. We feel helpless and hopeless in the midst of the worlds\u2019 huge and seemingly insolvable problems.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m learning to take a fresh approach. Maybe it is the Amish in me, but I\u2019m tuning out. I\u2019m not going to waste so much time reading shock horror bad news on Facebook and in the news.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I\u2019m shifting gears and I suggest you do too. Glance at the headlines and offer these things up to God in prayer and then get on with your daily life.<\/p>\n<p>Live locally and love locally. Spend more time with your wife or husband. Spend more time with your kids. Spend more time with your elderly Mom and Dad. Invite people over. Volunteer with a local church group or charity. Love God. Love your neighbor and don\u2019t worry about the world\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s face it. \u00a0Politicians will always be corrupt, stupid and ruthless. When it comes to politics hope for the best and expect the worst.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/bad-news-overload-and-living-locally\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue Reading<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day a parishioner was stressed out because of all the bad news in the world. Muslim immigration-invasion of Europe Demographic Winter Abortion World Poverty Pollution Government Corruption Disintegration of Marriage and Family Gross Immorality Increasing Godlessness Violence and Murder I know how it feels. We read all the bad news every day and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":20095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bad News Overload and Living Locally<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The other day a parishioner was stressed out because of all the bad news in the world. 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