Today Can Be Different: Rediscovering our purpose in such a time as this

Remember how excited you were when you were 7 years old and your birthday was only a week away? How you couldn’t wait for your big day? Do you remember dreaming about how great it would be to be an 8-year-old? Now, decades (for some of us, decades and decades) later, how do you feel about your next birthday? Do you still dream with happy expectations about what your life will be like in the coming year? Or does the heaviness of our time squeeze out your zest for the future? If it’s the latter, can we find our joy again – even in our current circumstances? We can. Let’s begin by remembering that a sovereign, loving, powerful God remains in control. Th