Grace and peace to you through our Lord, Jesus Christ, “They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.” - Jeremiah 6:14 Brett and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary yesterday, and it prompted me to reflect on a change we are living through that has been central to us as a couple from the beginning. As newlyweds, we lived in Pittsburgh, in an urban, predominantly Black neighbourhood. We attended a church whose mission was to bring racial reconciliation between Blacks and Whites in the city. I remember learning for the first time from my Black siblings in Christ, and then from my Black neighbours, the daily discrimination that Bl
Greetings! “Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted; but those who wait for YHWH shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.” - Isaiah 40:30 As time passes, it becomes more and more clear that we are in this pandemic for the long-haul. What this means is that we are living through an extended period of waiting. Thanks be to God that waiting is part of the Christian life. Isaiah reminds us that, “those who wait for YHWH will renew their strength.” It goes against the grain to stay home, to wait, but God is with us in the waiting. It doesn’t make us weak, but makes u
