Roll up your sleeves

Tuesday September 12th, Isaiah 35: 5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. 6 Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. 7 The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs. In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow. When the Lord comes again, it is not just humanity that will experience salvation; all of creation will have that joyful experience. In the mean time, God has given us that task of working toward God’s vision for all of creation, and sometimes it feels like we are going backwards. The Garden of Eden and the New Jerusalem are bookend visions held out before us to give us a hint as to how things will be and consequently, what we are to work towards. Roll up your sleeves, in the kingdom of God there is no such thing as unemployment.