Hope continues to shape us through Jurgen Moltmann's reflections on the faith.
It is in the creative expectation of Christ's coming that our everyday experiences of life take place. We wait and hasten, we hope and endure, we pray and watch, we are both patient and curious. That makes the Christian life exciting and alive. The faith that 'another world is possible' makes Christians enduringly capable of future.
We are left within 'all there is to be.' We are being ushered into that which is not yet and therefore we do not need to settle for what we can only see with our own eyes. God keeps calling us into a future alive with promises and full of new ways of being the Beloved of God. I know that I like to have a good handle on how my day will go. Then again, when I am so intent on controlling the direction of things, I miss out on much and I am stuck with myself as lord of the Day. Not a promising place to be. We have a tomorrow outside of our reach and yet it is handed to us as we walk into it.
Connection: What about this day will be exciting and alive? That is a question to consider as the day begins and then, at the end of the day, we can ask it from there: What about this day was exciting and alive as we look back at the whole day?
Remind us, O God of All Time, of what it is to watch for your coming within this day. Encourage us when we grow weary of the many turns in the day that bring our lives little resolution and often more challenges. Abide with us through it all. Amen.
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