A Cure for the Polly Pitiful Syndrome
A few of us are old enough and sophisticated enough remember that classic, very intellectual television show called “Hee-Haw.” For those who are not old enough to remember, “Hee-Haw” was neither class nor intellectual. One of the sets for the show was a corn field. That was most appropriate because the show was, indeed, very corny.
If you do remember that show, you probably remember the recurring skit during which the following lyrics were sung:
Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me.
How often do you sing that song? If you’ve never even heard that song, how often do you feel like you could sing it? How often do you play the role of Polly Pitiful?
I recently found a cure for the “Polly Pitiful Syndrome.” If we are talking only in terms of material blessings, I encourage you to see what you think about it.
While listening to a recording of one of brother Don Blackwell’s presentations at last year’s Polishing the Pulpit, he mentioned a website that I invite you to check out:
This website works in one of two ways. You can enter your personal “portfolio” and/or you can enter your yearly income. The website will then give you information about your economic well-being as it relates to the entire population of the world.
Try it. You may be very pleasantly surprised. You may not feel like singing the song above as often as you might otherwise.
Of course, the Christian should be singing an entirely different song anyway. Some of its lyrics are:
This world is not my home, I’m just a passing through.
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue;
The angels beckon me from heaven’s open door,
And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore.
As a Christian, it would be a wonderful idea to stop thinking about what I may or may not have of a material nature and have the attitude of a man who wrote these words while in a Roman prison:
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places (Eph. 1:3).
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