The storm before the calm? … It’s time to choose

Morning: Psalms 5, 6; I Kings 1:38-2:4; Acts 26:24-27:8

Evening: Psalms 10, 11; Mark 13:28-37

In Jesus’ day, the old order was passing away, dramatically and permanently.  Not a small shift, but a profound upheaval of human life.   The Jewish Temple would indeed be destroyed; the Jews would rebuild their traditions without a Temple.  Those who accepted the Way of Jesus found a new path, new possibilities for their lives.  Echoes of those upheavals sound in this 21^st century, in the threat of natural, social and economic devastation.  Yet Hope does not disappoint those who follow the Way of Jesus. Still, as then, they trust and invest in the ever-new, ancient possibilities: Mercy and Justice.