Conversations With Cinthia

                The United States is in a time of great political change and upheaval; people on all sides are angry and afraid.  (For those in other countries, this may or may not be a time of similar political transition, but struggle and conflict are ongoing realities, sometimes much more so than in the US, and are exacerbated in places by the pandemic and the attempts of various leaders to deal with it.)  If our hope is in anything but Jesus, we are going to lose our footing.  Any vision that requires society to be the way we think it should be will ultimately fail us.  Today, Cinthia acknowledges the reality of pain and loss as we struggle with the realities of our time but encourages us to look beyond the assumptions and systems on which we depend.  God cares about what happens in our governments and communities, but He is never worried or surprised.  Are we going to ask Him for His vision and place ourselves humbly in a position to let Him birth that vision within us, or are we going to hang onto our o