These days, is hard not to give in to anger and fear. Anger that some people feel so free to belittle, threaten and attack those who are different from them. Fear that what makes America the great country it is – our inclusive freedoms and values – may vanish.
We must continue to choose love, not hate, and look to God for strength and resolution.
A friend’s daughter fears for her marriage. She and her wife are afraid that the new climate in America may put their life together, or their very lives, at risk. A Jewish college student wakes to find swastikas painted on her dorm room door. Hispanic families dread deportation or fracture because of legal status.
What does this mean for us as bold Lutheran women? It means we are called to pray, to act, to love. We must point the way to Christ, be the light.
Hold fast, dear sisters in Christ, to the promises that our Lord has given us. Cling to each other and the love that comes from above, a love that is so deep and so wide that we can never use it up, but rather let it overflow to those around us.
This message is excerpted from “God’s got this” by Tricia Niesche from the January 26, 2017, blog of the Women of the ELCA.
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