If Your "Give a Damn's Busted" -- Fix It!

Wow, about that titled caught a few eyes......

Yesterday, I was at Hendrick Health Club spending my 60 minutes of torture on the elipticle machine listening to country's greatest hits and watching 10 different television monitors. At about the 48 minute mark of my exercise routine, Jo Dee Messina's current hit, "My Give a Damn's Busted" came through my earphones. The lyrics go like this:

Well, you filled up my head with so many lies.
You twisted my heart till somethin' snapped inside.
I'd like to give it one more try,
But my give-a-damn's busted.

You can crawl back home, say you were wrong;
Stand out in the yard and cry all night long.
Well, go ahead and water the lawn:
My give-a-damn's busted.

I really wanna care.
I wanna feel somethin'.
Let me dig a little deeper:.
No, sorry: nothin'.

You can say you've got issues, you can say you're a victim.
It's all your parents fault, after all you didn't pick 'em.
Maybe somebody else has got time to listen:
My give-a-damn's busted.

Well, your therapist says it was all a mistake:
A product of the Prozac an' your co-dependent ways.
So who's your neighbor these days?
My give-a-damn's busted.

I really wanna care.
I wanna feel somethin'.
Let me dig a little deeper:.
No, still nothin'.

It's a desperate situation, no tellin' what you'll do.
If I don't forgive you, you say your life is through.
C'mon, gimme somethin' I can use:
My give-a-damn's busted.

Well, I really wanna care.
I wanna feel somethin'.
Let me dig a little deeper:
No, I'm sorry.
Just nothin', you know.
You've really done it this time, ha, ha.
My give-a-damn's busted.

While listening to this, I'm watching the television monitor that's showing the Maury Povich show with an episode entitled, Parents who quit on their children.

Now, I'm not a psychologist or a thereapist, but I do understand a little about what's wrong with our society today. We live in a world where so many people have given up hope. They don't care anymore. It's all about me, myself and I. And for many of them, they've given up on themselves too.

I'm just thankful I have a wife, a family and great friends who don't share that philosophy. And even if they did, I've always got a Father in heaven that will never give up on me. I know as a child of God, I am able to rejoice in the hope of the glory of God (Romans 5:1-5). And for that, I am forever thankful!