Today's Troubling News

I'll postpone until tomorrow what I was going to write about today because I couldn't let the morning go by without commenting on the awful events of the day in London. Today's news is a stark reminder of the evil pervading our world and makes it hard to continue to talk about the coming of God's kingdom. Today the kingdom of God seems smaller than the mustard seed Jesus alluded to. But it is here among us and as people who follow Jesus we need to remember that our hope is not in anti-terror task forces, G-8 leaders, ill-conceived wars, or the might of ecomomic wealth. Our hope is in God and God's plans for the righting, the unbending of creation. And we need to help our children understand this and embrace this -- help them to see themselves, first, as citizens of God's kingdom.

My prayers are with the people of London, today.