Recently the community here at St. James reflected about the election. I said that the ugliness and divisiveness filled me with a sense of depression about the future of the country. The young Brothers spoke of their initial fear at the election results. Their family, their friends, the people they work with will all be impacted if the threats issued during the campaign are carried out. But, they said, as they prayed about it they began to have hope. After all, God is still in charge and God can bring a blessing out of the worst circumstances. I realized they were right for, as the Letter to the Hebrews puts it, no matter the storm hope is “an anchor of the soul, sure and firm.”
