God as new day. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com [mailto:adebelak@redeemerluth.com]God as new day means we can reconsider how we will go about the days of our lives.
We do not need to be absorbed in getting back at others or making sure that others
do not have what we have or that we must have what they have. Instead, we are freed
up to consider how we can be a part of the healing of our world - everything from
our personal relationships to the warring madness of our world. We can think about
and then engage ourselves in the things that make for peace. We can forgive and
we can lend a hand. We can stop picking on other and tearing down everything that
is not like us. Yes, we can. That is the Easter proclamation - Yes. Yes we are a
part of the new day because our God not only invites us to live there - God empowers
us to turn away from the brokenness of the day and step along a new way. God as
new day calls forth resistance - not violent resistance. We are invited to turn
our backs to the ways of vengeance and retribution and scapegoating - and then
make a deliberate turn to a love that never ceases to seek healing and forgiveness
and solidarity with those around us. A new day is at hand - that is a promise we
must take seriously.
O God of love and new life, help to turn us around even when we long to keep fighting
for our own lives. Make us a part of the reconciliation of all things. Amen.
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