Yesterday, I was thinking about all the politics and lies that are being spread in the world and I felt fear for the future. Today, I took my dogs outside in our backyard for a few minutes so that they could do their “business”. I looked up at the sun and I saw my dogs just running around in the grass without a care in the world. Somehow I felt that there has to be a middle between being blissfully unaware of everything going on in the world, like my dogs, and being totally fearful, thinking that society is headed into the end of days where evil men are going to rule the world and oppress the rest of us.
It reminds me of the amendment that started the whole train of thought for me about church gatherings in Texas. Church doesn’t need to be a huge gathering of people. It just needs to be two or more believers gathered in God’s name. And hope doesn’t really die even when evil men seem to be doing horrible acts. It also just needs two or more believers. That’s where my middle exists. Sure there are difficult things that happen in the world, but as long as I have faith and can share that with others, there’s still hope. Sometimes it is difficult to remember that. But sometimes, I just need to rub my dog’s belly and I remember that there’s a lot of really wonderful things in my life.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
