Ithink that one of the most challenging aspects of living a life of faith is the realization that everything in this earthly life we know is so … ethereal.

Circumstances can change in the time that it takes for an eyelash to drop to the ground, and that is a very disconcerting thought for most of us. This precariousness is jarring and reminds us that truly we walk through this life trusting in things unseen. (Hebrews 11:1)

I was reminded this week by a devotion I read that all we are certain of in this world is only temporary, and that our fortunes can literally change with the dawning of a new day. The rub, of course, is that those changes can either bring us great joy … or tremendous sorrow.

These words from Barbara Brown Taylor spoke to me: “... The things that seem to be going most

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