Today is the Day to Stop Waiting and Start Living
Living in exile. Life isn’t what it was supposed to be. Apart from the ones you love. Though you live here, your heart is somewhere else. Life is hard, and you’ve found yourself waiting. Still waiting. It feels like you are living in exile. This isn’t how you’d envisioned that your life would turn out. Life is hard in exile, no matter how things got that way. It’s even harder when you know things aren’t right. This was the story for God’s people. God’s original plan was that God would live face-to-face with his people, in perfect unity and community. But once Adam and Eve sinned, that ruined this plan, and they were banished from the Garden of Eden. Then God said he would bless all people on earth through Abraham. God told him “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will c...