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On Inauguration Day 2009, many of my conservative brothers and sisters were profoundly convinced that Barack Hussein Obama was the Anti-Christ.
Likewise, this past Friday during Inauguration, many of my more liberal brothers and sisters were in a complete stew over the assumed devastation coming with the Presidency of Donald Trump.
In this back-and-forth treachery of accusations, abiding truths are being completely ignored.
Since 9/11, we have become a nation living off of hope because of our fears, and ending up with fears because of the disappointment caused by our hope.
But hope and fear are not opposites, but rather, uncomfortable cousins–because when hope does not deliver its promises, it produces fear over its failures. And when our fears are in full force, hope is set aside with a jaded sneer because we are convinced there is really no way to escape our difficulty.
In the midst of this topsy-turvy war between hope and fear, faith and love have been set aside.
Very simply:
- Faith is when I realize that when God and I work together, great things can be done.
- Love is when I decide to include you.
- And then the three of us–God, me and you–can do almost anything.
The aspiration of the church should be to return faith and love to the equation so that hope and fear do not continue to rebound off one another.
The good news is that faith makes us believe in both a divine possibility and our involvement in the solution.
The better news is that when we include love, we increase our numbers, we increase our passion, and therefore we increase our possibilities.
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