I would ask how you are, but in light of the last few days, I'm guessing that you are

feeling scared or angry or anybody just tired, you know, wherever you fall on the political

spectrum. David Brooks, in his opinion, column a few days ago called Wednesday the day the

fever broke in America. And I love that idea just because I love to plot the pain of

the last week and recent memory into a narrative of healing and renewal and to kind of fly

in the face of the news cycle and social media. And I do hold out like in private a bit,

a cautious optimism for the future of our country and our city. But I don't know if he's right

or wrong. I pray he is right. I pray things get better, but I don't know if things will

get better or get far worse. But I woke up this morning thinking about that line from Hebrews,

we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken. We are receiving a kingdom that cannot

be shaken and to clarify, for those of you new to the New Testament, that is not referring

to the United States of America, which if we are in the New Testament, it's through the

metaphor of Babylon, all right, not of anything else. The kingdom that we are a part of is

not even a kingdom, it's a democracy and it can and it will be shaken if not now than

later. It's just a matter of when not if. But we are receiving not a democracy, but a

kingdom with a king and it cannot be shaken. It is here now and it is coming. And this

last week is just yet another invitation we've had many over the last year to recalibrate

our hope, our ultimate hope, not that we don't work and act for justice and all of that,

but to recalibrate our ultimate hope over the horizon to the return of the king to make

all things new. That doesn't take away the grief and the loss of recent memory, but it

does put it in a whole new perspective. You know, I've said this to you a lot, so let

me just play the broken record kind of angle again. If your highest value in life is to

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