Monday was a holiday in the U.S. I know that this is a global community. I simply share that it was Memorial Day to give you context about my thinking process.
It's a day when people who died in combat are remembered. I drove through a local military cemetery as a way to make all of the deaths real. To see actual gravesites.
And I thought of you.
I thought of the country you're from and all of the people who have died throughout the ages in conflict.
I thought of the country you're living in now and have grown to love and all the people who have died in wars or combat or tribal clashes.
This isn't a post for or against war. As I drove around the cemetery I wasn't thinking about "just war" and the need sometimes to defend what you love.
What I thought about were the people. The people who have died and how their friends and family were never the same.
And I thought about how one day there will be no more wars, death will die, and peace will reign. Theologians like to talk about the "already/not yet" of the Kingdom of God here on earth; until there are no conflicts, attacks, or clashes, we are still in the not yet.
But friends, today in this space, let's pause and collectively remind ourselves that war will not always be our story. That someday, the lamb will lie down with the lion.
Amen and amen.
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