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They tore down the old work shed at my childhood home. It was a 16 X 16 crooked wooden structure at the side of our driveway, and I don’t know if it had ever been painted but it was weathered gray from years of Michigan snow storms and rain falls. It looked like the shed would collapse at any moment so my dad had the old building torn down, exposing a patch of rich under soil. Mom planted some vegetables and flowers there and in a few months lush plants and beautiful blooms filled the once hidden spot.

This memory makes me think of hope. Today many Americans are in need of a place of hope, a place where they won’t keep hearing about “how bad things are,” where they can develop new life habits and understanding and vision. I think Trinity Episcopal Church is such a place.

We don’t worry about the future because we understand our future to be in God’s hands. We hear the positive promises of Scripture every Sunday; we support each other and pray for each other and eat together and encourage each other. We live in the present light of our hope---in the God we know, who says we can get through anything together (Phil. 4:13).

the old weathered gray structures to get them through difficult times. They look to the government, the stock market, social services, politics, the internet, my rich uncle Lester (who incidentally died a few years ago so count him out). It’s not that these institutions are bad, they’re just not worth betting your life on them. Maybe God’s saying to America, “It’s time to tear them down and put God first.”

You may be looking for a job or juggling your bills or refinancing your house, and that’s a difficult place to be. But the bible promises that God will never let us go hungry (Ps. 37:25---look it up). God will see your efforts and God will work, in all things, for your good (Ro. 8:28 or read Psalm 1). In the mean time, “Do what you can and God will do what you can’t.” You can bet your life on God!

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