Be Who You Are
Nov 13, 2016
Texts: There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves. People will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. [Luke 21:25-26]
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox; but the serpent--its food shall be dust! They shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the LORD. [Isa 65:25]
What a rude shock it was to wake up on Wednesday morning and find out that we had elected Donald Trump to be our next President. All over this country, children went to bed that night frightened about what would happen to their refugee parents, their Muslim friends, their gay or disabled classmates. Our children have watched and listened to the angry rhetoric, and they have picked up the current of fear that is loose in the land. An adopted Guatemalan child in our community anxiously asked his mother if he would be deported too. “No,” she replied, “you are safe right here with us.” But his fear was real.