Hope/F*ck/Rend
Matthew 24:44 (NIV)
So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
I had no idea what "rend" meant so it took the focus of today's devotion. It is a verb defined as to "tear something into two or more pieces." The cry from others following this devotion seems to be that God needs to rend the heavens and come to earth but we are told in the verse we cannot know the hour. We cannot will his presence because we feel it is time.
Knowing the meaning, instead I feel that we have rent our country with the hate, vitriol, and greed that is spewed daily in the media (national, local AND social). Sometimes all you can seemingly do is scream "FUCK!" It's guttural. It's emotional. It is the only word that can convey the ugly despair a lot of us feel as 2016 comes to a close. I owe my mom money for her cuss jar for saying the word. But it's real.
My photo prompt for today is "hope" and I am hard pressed to find it. Where is the hope that should come with the promises of Advent? Where is the hope in a year that has taken my Grandmother and left us with a president-elect who is the opposite of everything my Grandmother exuded?
God, fuck, please, rend my heart to let the hope find it's way out.
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