Perhaps we can blame this sense of melancholy on the political season-the realization from Ecclesiastes that “all is vanity.” Or maybe it’s our current economic instability that gives rise to the sense of doom and a certain “thin-ness” of human existence.
(Dick Staub is the author of “The Culturally Savvy Christian” and the host of The Kindlings Muse (http://www.thekindlings.com). His blog can be read at www.dickstaub.com)
