For some this past Tuesday, Election Day, it was the End. For others, it felt like a new beginning. If the other candidate had won, just the opposite feeling would have descended on those on the other side!

At least for a season we put a lot of stock in national outcomes. This figures no less in the Bible. We look toward Washington DC as that location where our nation’s wellbeing and future is decided. The prophets, the Psalmist, and the New Testament writers continually look to Jerusalem as the location and symbol for God’s unfolding of all purpose and meaning for all Creation. As Jerusalem goes, so goes the whole world! In God’s ultimate deliverance of the beloved people of God all nature is restored with Peace as are all humankind finally complete and beyond suffering and death. We long for God to bring us home to the holy city Jerusalem! Thus, we live not so much from out of our past but toward our Blessed End!

As we move toward that Blessed End we still have days of worship, celebration, honor, and memory…such as Nov 13, 2016. Since we are still caught in Time not Eternity we pause to note: All Our Veterans, The Vietnam War Era Veterans, The Worldwide Persecuted Church, Organ and Tissue Donation Sunday and Our Every Four Year National Election.

We are headed toward a God transformed Jerusalem and a New Heaven and a New Earth but in route there we have much to do here! So, drawn by the promise of a Great Future we live our day to day, year to year lives with days just “packed” with meaning and purpose! This time of year is just that kind of “day!”

Join together this Sunday to hope, to honor, and to remember!

Blessings!

Pastor Barry