What Will Our World Be Like?

Four years ago, November 7, 2016, a day I remember living through.  A day when the world was about to change in a way no one could even imagine.

It was an election that radically changed the ways of democracy; as this nation has always coveted.

Today I am trying to imagine what tomorrow will being.

In the deepest parts of my being I feel hope.

I feel great trust in the majority of, this great countries people.  And where their hearts really are.

I also feel a tiny bit of fear that my idealistic mind will once again be crushed into some awful sort of realism I don’t care to face.

I think it is interesting that the Revised Common Lectionary, for Sunday November 1st,  chose Revelation as the first reading.

The Book of Revelation is about a God who does not pick favorites; and only those who honor rule keepers. 

It is an artistically poetic book that uses one persons imagination to focus on the issues of The Almighty verses the human made culture of the western world’s capitalism and global expansion; that favors the use of all manner of weapon --  military and mental -- of the modern world. 

This one book has created much debate thought out history.  

It is a book about the ways of God verses  the ways of human power and mentality.

It is not a book, as many would have you believe, about scaring people into believing.

It is rather a message of hope for those who desire to follow the ways of the God; who came to earth in Jesus’ skin.

A God who sits on the “thrown” and welcomes all races, nations cultures, religious denominations, male, female, Jew, Greek, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, white, yellow, brown black who call on his name.

It is my own precious faith that keeps me grounded in the truth that nothing — not even a Presidential election — can destroy the hope we have in the Creator God.

Who promises to be with us through all of this world ups and downs, confusions and frustrations, grief and joy, destructions and reconciliations — to the end of the earth.