Our Annual Winter Sadness
A TGCC article reflecting on Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
It’s been a cold, long winter.
Like my kids, I smiled at the first snowflakes in November. Through December, I appreciated the extra opportunities for shovelling; I needed the exercise. Then January came, and the Christmas lights came down. The past two weeks have been some of the coldest on record. My face hurts when I go outside.
It’s dark, too dark. It’s that time of year.
Recent podcasts episodes I’ve hosted. For Thinking About It we are focused on spiritual disciplines and we have been joined by our new lead pastor at my church, Jeremy McQuoid.
Thinking About It (Links: Website | Apple | Spotify):
Is Work-Life Balance Biblical?
How To Talk To God
Scripture Intake: Why, What, and How?
You can grow. Here’s how.
Living Like a Christian With a Rule of Life
Q52: What Hope Does Everlasting Life Hold for Us?’
What Would Jesus Tech (Links: Website | Apple | Spotify | YouTube):
AI is Interpreting the Bible Now? With Jonas Kurlberg & Zoltan Schwab
We’ve Arrived In Digital Babylon... Now What?
How the Bible Helps Us View Technology
Do It For God, with Gregg Hinzelman
What Will Happen in 2026? (Our Predictions)
Thanks for reading and listening.
It's interesting, Andrew, Ecclesiastes 11:8 mentions "days of darkness". It seems in this passage as Craig Bartholomew says in his commentary, "one might sense Qohelet moving toward an affirmation of joy over despair but still struggling with how to relate the two. But I think as John Goldingay says in his commentary, "While dark days can come within one's lifetime, Qohelet encourages readers to see this experience as the exception rather than the rule" which of course I am sure we affirm. I enjoyed your post!