Got The Blues?

Today, I had a bad day. It is easy to get the blues! Every day, our newscasters seem to be peddlers of pessimism. There are a seething mass of prophets of doom out there, bawling out their funeral wares.

Are we living "in the worst of times"? Or, is it "the best of times?" Does our answer to this depend upon the kind of faith that sustains and guides us?

In the 2nd century of the Christian Era, the bishop named Polycarp wrote: "Oh God! What an awful age you have caused me to live in!" He had a point, and he was burned at the stake soon thereafter. And yet, that was also the beginning of one of the greatest times of expansion in the Christian world.

Ours is a kind of open‑ended world, and we have the gift of an open future. It is not doomed to be a dead‑end. Sometimes we wonder about the future of the Church. Is there hope? If figures of the last few years were fed into a computer, it might predict that the Church would be dead in 40 years.

But by that same reasoning, if computers had existed back in the 1800's when horse‑drawn carriages were on the increase, and the facts poured in, they would certainly have predicted that the whole world would be covered by 7 feet of horse manure by the end of the century.

As Christians, we celebrate our Lord Jesus. Beyond the darkness of his tomb, there was light, and we are the Community of the Third Day.

The resurrection is our theme...forgiveness is our bag...hope is our thing...for we worship a God of the incredible!

And when the lights start going out all over the world, and you and I get blue and discouraged, we come to the altar of our Church. And there we remember that "God has chosen what is foolish to shame the wise...that God has chosen what is weak to shame the strong...that God has chosen what is low and despised, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are." (I Cor. 1:27)

We stand in a good world. It may be marred and scarred, and torn, and warped, but still it is a good world. And to us, has been given the choice of taking it or leaving it. The Biblical writer in Deuteronomy (Deut. 30:19) said that God has set before us: "life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life that you may live."

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