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Justice, Wellbeing And Healing Flow From Reverence

“But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings.” -Malachi 4:2

Reverence at its core is a deep respect for something or someone greater than oneself, To live with reverence is to live with a sense of awe, wonder, and appreciation.

Everyone and everything, the whole cosmos, lives and moves and has its being God. (Acts 17:28) God is our source. God is our ground. God is our medium. We all participate in God, are sustained by God, and reflect God.

Having true reverence for God is about far more than the rituals we perform and the customs we keep. It’s about our having a deep and abiding respect for everyone and everything we encounter. We honor the divinity within ourselves and each other.

Our reverence for God both compels and inspires us to seek justice and wellbeing not only for ourselves but for everyone. Our seeking justice and wellbeing for everyone is what will eventually heal our world.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Never Get Too Tired To Do The Right Thing

“Brothers and sisters, do not be weary in doing what is right.” - 2 Thessalonians 3:13

It’s easy for us to do the right things when it feels like we are winning, when we are making progress, when things are going right. But it’s much harder for us to keep going when we get bogged down, when we have been denied, delayed, or defeated.

We start to wonder‘what’s the point?’ As are efforts appear to yield less and less outcome, as we repeatedly fail to break through, as we find ourselves seemingly stuck in an endless loop, it’s easy for us to lose our will, lose our focus, lose our fire. It’s easy for us to get tired.

This is why it’s so important for us to practice self care and mutual aid. We give ourselves and each other respite, but we do not quit. We remind ourselves and each other of our previous victories and the obstacles we have already overcome. We comfort and encourage ourselves and each other. We keep the mission and vision squarely before our eyes.

These practices keep us from getting too tired to do the right things.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Let Our Tests Become Our Testimonies

“This (hardship) will give you an opportunity to testify.” - Luke 21:13

I dislike calling hardships and adversities blessings in disguise. Such a framing tends to minimize the very real agony, and pain that we are experiencing. To be transformed and overcome, these pains must be acknowledged not denied.

I do believe that every struggle contains within it powerful seeds. These seeds when planted, nurtured, and cultivated eventually take root, grow, and blossom into something that is restorative, transformative, and beautiful. The beauty of our transformed lives gives witness to the beauty and power of God’s love.

So while we acknowledge the pain and difficulty of our circumstances, we refuse to be trapped by them. We refuse to be diminished by them. We refused to be resigned to them. We instead commit ourselves to the work of caring for ourselves and each while the power of the spirit within and among us transforms us.

In this way our tests become our testimonies.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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We Don’t Need To Be Defensive

“So make up your minds not to prepare your defense in advance;” - Luke 21:14

Many of us spend a lot of time and energy worrying about what’s going to happen. We worry about defending our name, our honor, our reputation, our pride.

We worry about being disappointed by the people around us. We worry about being betrayed by the people we most care about.

We spend so much effort and energy protecting and defending ourselves that we don’t have any left to put into becoming who we are meant to be.

Luke 21 doesn’t say these things we fear aren’t going to happen to us. Just the opposite, Luke 21 declares that we will at times be hurt, disappointed, and betrayed, and often by the people closest to us.

But the gospel also declares that we will be ok, that God will guide us through. The chaos of the world around us will not shake the peace of the world within us. And “not a hair of your head will perish. By your endurance you will gain your souls.”

God’s got this. We don’t need to be defensive.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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God Answers The Prayers We Don’t Know To Pray

“Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will hear.” - Isaiah 65:24

Sometimes life has us all twisted. I could use another phrase, but I’m not going to drop any expletives today.

Sometimes we know something is wrong but we have no idea how to make it right.

If we have an idea of how to make it right, we don’t know where to begin.

If we have an idea of how to begin, we don’t know how to find the people and resources to see it through.

And if we know and have all those things, we sometimes still can’t seem to get out of our own way. We at times seem to lack motivation, character, and discipline to follow through.

God knows all this about us already. God guides our footsteps when we don’t know the way. God open doors that we cannot see and did not seek. God gives us the strength that we do not have.

God answers the prayers we do not know to pray.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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These Troubles Will Soon Be Forgotten

“For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind.” -Isaiah 65:17

Some of us are so tired, so discouraged, so overwhelmed that we feel like giving up. What’s going on within us, what’s going on in the world around us, it seems like too much sometimes.

The prophetic words of Isaiah 65:17 are written for such times. They encourage us to take heart. The power of God is at work within us and around us. The way things are, are not the way they shall always be.

Take heart. God is creating new possibilities and opportunities. God is creating a new reality for us as individuals and for our world.

These current troubles, they’re real, but they will soon be forgotten.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Do We Trust That Our Redeemer Lives?

“For I know that my redeemer lives and that in the end he will stand upon the earth;” - Job 19:25

Job endured. He endured pain and suffering, loss and grief, ridicule and derision. He endured his own disorientation and internal dissonance. He had no answers for life’s questions.

What made it possible for him to endure? I believe he was able to endure because of his decision to trust that his redeemer lives. Whether he trusted from a place of spiritual certainty and confidence, stubborn determination, desperation, or strong hope is open to interpretation.

People of faith whose stories are remembered in the scriptures are to be found from among all these groups. Their decision to trust that they had a redeemer and that their redeemer lives is the thing they all had in common. This commonality gave them the strength and resolve they needed to see their situations through.

Do we trust that our redeemer lives? This answer determines all the rest.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Strength Comes From The Heart

“Comfort your hearts and strengthen them in every good work and word.” -2 Thessalonians 2:17

Where do we find our strength? From where do we draw our power? These questions emerge from this week’s lectionary readings.

Psalm 17 emphasizes how we don’t try to become stronger through violence, manipulation, or exploitation in declaring, “As for what others do, by the word of your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.”

Our power is centered in peace. Our strength comes from the heart, hearts rooted and grounded in love. We love the world around us, and we love all the people in it.

We find ourselves getting stronger and gaining capacity and capability as we seek to be a blessing to others both in our words and deeds. When we can’t be a blessing to someone, we do everything we can to make sure that we do not harm them.

Strength comes from the heart.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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