Narrow the Gap

I shared this on Sunday as an introduction to prayer and introduction to the benediction:

As I took in the news the last week or so, a refrain kept going through my head.

 

          This is not the way things are supposed to be.

 

Hearing of the shooting in Monterey Park, I thought:

 

          This is not the way things are supposed to be.

 

Hearing of the shooting in Half Moon Bay, I said to myself:

 

          This is not the way things are supposed to be.

 

Reading about the video that shows Tyre Nichol’s murder – I have not yet been able to watch it – I said out loud:

 

          This is not the way things are supposed to be.

 

This gap between what God intends for us and the way life actually plays out is not new. But this week that gap feels like an abyss. The only thing I know to do is name it. Tell the truth of things. And to reach out to God through any means available to us.

In the week to come I invite you to narrow the gap between what God hopes for us all and the way things are. Do one small thing to narrow that gap. Email an elected official, call someone you haven’t talked to in a while, rest deeply and well. May we narrow the gap. For God’s sake. For all of our sakes.

What are other ways in which things are not the way they are supposed to be?

What one small thing do you plan to do to narrow the gap?

-Written by Rev. Amy Miracle

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