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Look For Holy Moments

“Keep awake, therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.” - Matthew 24:42

Since the world, the entire cosmos lives and moves and has its being in God, everyone and everything is imbibed with the sacred.

This means that even our most ordinary tasks and mundane activities, even our casual conversations and passing interactions can be opportunities for us to experience transcendence, can be opportunities for us to experience Emmanuel- God with us.

Pay attention to beauty. Live with an intentional sense of awe and wonder. Share kindness and compassion with others. Notice when these gifts are shared with you.

These are all holy moments. Look for the holy moments. It is in these moments we find that God has come to us.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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What Would Someone Notice In Us? (Advent 4)

“As for the things that you have learned and received and heard and noticed in me, do them, and the God of peace will be with you.” -Philippians 4:9

If someone were to observe us for an extended period of time, what would they notice about us?

Would they see gentle people, people whose gentleness comes from their confidence in God’s care and protection?

Would they see people who even in life’s most anxious moments practiced gratitude? People who gained clarity and comfort through the practice of prayer and meditation?

Would they see people whose hearts and minds were consistently at peace and free of bitterness and hate, anger and fear?

Would they see people who are relentlessly positive, who both focus on the good and work for the good?

Dear God, let the power of your spirit living within and among us transform us into such people.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Give Thanks For Three Spiritual Truths

“Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth.

Serve the LORD with gladness; come into his presence with singing.

Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him; bless his name.

For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations” Psalm 100

Give thanks for three spiritual truths:

1. We belong to God.
2. God is good.
3. God’s love for us endures forever.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Practicing Humility And Curiosity (Advent 3)

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths."- from Isaiah 2:3

All of us have a sense of right and wrong, good and bad. These moral sensibilities are a good starting point when discerning our pathways. However, they should be starting points.

We often we assume the things we think and believe are complete and correct without understanding and acknowledging that our perspectives are partial and incomplete.

We too often become defensive and combative when we encounter people who have lived different experiences, have different perspectives, and as a result make different choices from our own.

This passage invites us to come together in humility, understanding that we all have a lot to learn. We invited to be curious. How did folks who see things differently come to believe what they believe and do what they do? What can we learn from them?

God has a lot to teach us, and often teaches us through the people we encounter. Being humble and being curious are vitally important us as we learn to walk in God’s pathways.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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We Don’t Need To Push Our Religion On Anyone. (Advent 2)

“And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”-John 12:32

A lot of us have been going about this the wrong way. We don’t need to push our religion on anyone. We don’t need to force anyone to kneel at the alters we’ve built.

We instead use all our efforts on lifting up the example of God’s love through the words we speak, and the actions we take. As disciples we are students who need learn to walk in the ways of love. We take up our crosses and carry them into the world becoming examples of sacrificial love.

In a world filled with bloodshed and violence, exploitation and oppression, we lift a divinely inspired alternative vision of a world where we live together in peace. We lift a vision world where justice is no longer seen as mere retribution. Justice becomes the way we proactively care for one another.

If we lift this vision, and live this witness, “all the nations shall stream to it.” - from Isaiah 2:2

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Let Our Faith Be As Big As God’s Vision For Us

“He shall judge between the nations and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war any more.” - Isaiah 2:4

The second chapter of Isaiah describes one of, if not the most beautiful divinely inspired vision the world has ever been given. Envision a world where all disputes between and among all people are resolved with justice and equity.

Envision a world where we no longer spend our energy trying to take the things we want from each other through deception and violence, exploitation and oppression. Envision a world that is built far more around cooperation than competition.

This is the world God wants for us. This is the divine vision of the human endeavor. In order for us to see it come to pass, our faith in this vision has to big as the vision itself.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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How We Show Up Is How God Shows Up

“It is you who have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the LORD.” - from Jeremiah 23:2

The Hebrew word translated “attend” in this verse has both positive and negative connotations as it has been used in scripture.

Here in this Jeremiah passage bad shepherds will be held accountable when God “attends” to them. Similarly, when God visits (same Hebrew word) the folks in Exodus 32:34, God states an intention to visit the sins of the wrongdoers upon them holding them accountable.

In other passages, when God attends (or visits) Sarah and Hannah, God blesses them with children. (Genesis 21:1 & Samuel 2:21 respectively). The Psalmist in Psalm 8:4 wonders what is humanity that God would even bother pay attention to us.

What is consistent about these passages is that they each describe God paying attention to us and showing up in our lives. God shows up differently for different people. How God shows up for us depends upon how we show up in the world.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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God Don’t Like Ugly

“Come, behold the works of the LORD; see what desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire.” - Psalm 46:8-9

Some read that God is bringing desolation and destruction on the earth and stop reading. But exactly what is it that God intends to destroy? What is it that God wants to bring to an end on earth?

God has had enough of our bloodshed and violence.

God has had enough of our greed and exploitation.

God has had enough of our callous neglect of the vulnerable, of the marginalized, of the refugee, and of the stranger.

God has had enough of the dereliction of our duties and the abdication of our responsibilities.

God is bringing all these to an end. As the elders of my youth used to say, “God don’t like ugly.”

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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