May 29, 2022 |
What Will Shake Us?
| The Rev. Melanie W. J. SlaneWhat Will Shake Us?
Every morning at my son's Montessori school in the
Cincinnati public school district, they take two minutes to center themselves
to begin a new day. A chance to embrace their school motto, peace, love, and
PRM. Every child is given the opportunity to pray in their own way at school and
no one is excluded from this time of daily reflection, I decided to stay with
the teachers there in that place of prayer and together we begged God, “Please
do not let this be their last day.”...
My seven-year-old son, and your seven-year-old son, and your seven-year-old grandson, and your seven-year-old niece, and your seven-year-old neighbor. They are currently being taught. They are learning from our society that if they want to be saved, that they need to turn off the lights, get low, barricade the doors, stay silent. And sacrifice themselves so that gun manufacturers can continue to make tons of money off of people's anxious fears of home invasion or worse, the pleasure at the sport of murder.
What must we do to be saved? What will shake us? What is our foundation? And will we believe on the Lord Jesus who came that we might have life and might have it more abundantly?...
My seven-year-old son, and your seven-year-old son, and your seven-year-old grandson, and your seven-year-old niece, and your seven-year-old neighbor. They are currently being taught. They are learning from our society that if they want to be saved, that they need to turn off the lights, get low, barricade the doors, stay silent. And sacrifice themselves so that gun manufacturers can continue to make tons of money off of people's anxious fears of home invasion or worse, the pleasure at the sport of murder.
What must we do to be saved? What will shake us? What is our foundation? And will we believe on the Lord Jesus who came that we might have life and might have it more abundantly?...