Air Supply, a popular soft rock group from Australia was in its prime during the 1980’s. One of Air Supply’s greatest albums, Love in Love featured three classic songs which made the top 100 billboard charts. The highest, All Out Of Love, reached number two in the early 1980’s. After reading through the lyrics, this song refers to an individual who is tapped out, unable to muster the strength necessary to love. Essentially, this soul is empty.
I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things, Isaiah 45:7.
This week I attended a Wilmington Blue Rocks game, a local Class A minor league affiliate of the Kansas City Royals. My sister’s company usually rents out one of the boxes or suites so I enjoy spending the night with family. However, on this particular night the ballpark was empty. While the full capacity is over 2000, there might have been two hundred people sitting in the stands. Normally, the heat of summer would be an excuse, except it was 80 degrees with little to no humidity. Either people are too busy, don’t have the extra money to spend or are simply empty, losing their love for America’s summer pastime.
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint, Isaiah 40:31.
Baseball is not the only thing in life people have grown cold toward. The stress to provide for your family, struggle to fit in and the worries of each day can suck the life out of individuals. Thus, people like me endure periods of feeling numb. Though psychologists may call this depression, I think sometimes in life, people need to sort things out on their own. When the malaise ends, you can snap out of it. However, don’t be surprised when someone you love is quiet for a while until emptiness is replaced by joy.
by Jay Mankus
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