This week has been strange! Strange because it was relatively peaceful.
Peaceful as it has been raining in the morning. It is one's tendancy and so tempting to just roll over and sleep instead of rushing to work.
Peaceful especially if one drops into any of the shopping malls. Listen to the promoters, and one hears of 'no customers and no sales'. It is also time to close the account for month of August too! If we are lucky, it is peacefully flat! Doesn't help with the 1st September increase in the price of petrol. It has hit home hard to many.
Though various experts have said that their economy have bottomed out; the bottoming out period will last for the rest of the year! This is not a prophesy; but talk to the retailers and they will tell you that this 'peace' will last for a while yet. The 'buy one free one' is no longer attractive. Why? People have already bought for so many months. They will need time to consume their purchases!
Yes, it is a quiet and ominous peace, to the point of eerie-ness! It is not a pleasant sort of peace! And definitely, not the peace and joy that our Lord Jesus provides!
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