“O that you
would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at
your presence…” but not today, thank you. I know there are those who look
forward to the second coming but I hope the second coming comes long after I am
gone. It’s not that the planet and its people wouldn't welcome something better
than what we presently endure; it’s just that the peaceable kingdom doesn't arrive, well, very peaceably. So we remind God, who often seems silent and
hidden until push comes to shove “we are all the work of your hand” so “now consider;
we are all your people.” But God is always present where judgment and mercy
meet. We acknowledge that in our present condition we are not all we were meant
to be or want to be or could be but even so God is forever connected to us as
potter to clay, parent to child. So whenever God tears opens the heavens and
comes down we pray that God remembers we are the works of God’s hands and so
remain connected to God forever.
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