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You Are Amazing!

“You have made them (humans) a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor.” - Psalm 8:5

You are amazing. You are incredible. You are spectacular. You are truly special (and I mean in a good way).

How do you feel about these affirmations? Do they make you feel uncomfortable? Do you deflect? Is your first impulse to diminish or deny them?

What if I quote the verse saying that you are gods and goddesses, children of the most high? Would this be too much for you to accept?

Well it’s not too much. Rather it’s the truth of who you are. It’s the truth of who we are. The ancient witness acknowledges our finitude and limitations. But it also affirms us in the highest possible way. Time to affirm ourselves and each other.

You are amazing!

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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We Don’t Know

“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.” - John 16:12

We want to know. We want certainty. We want to be in control. Not knowing the what, where, when, how, and whys makes us afraid. It terrifies many of us. And we seldom make good choices when we are driven by fear.

The reality is this: our best knowledge and understanding is partial, incomplete, and sometimes incorrect. “For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.” (I Corinthians 13:12)

We are freed from our fears of uncertainty when we acknowledge them. We don’t know, can’t know, and may never know on this side of the grave. We just have to do best we can with what we have, living faithfully with humanity and humility.

We don’t know. But there’s one who knows us. So we trust our lives to the One who knows us best.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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We Are Seen

“What are humans that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?” Psalm 8:4

Compared to the scale and scope of the universe, we are not even as big as a single grain of sand on the beach. The longest human lives lived are not even as long a candle flicker against the backdrop of eternity.

Yet the ancient witnesses declare that all of us are fully seen and fully known by the creator and sustainer of the universe in whom we live and move and have our being. We matter. Our lives matter. Our relationships matter.

Just as the tiniest creatures in the sea are fully known by and sustained in the ocean, so we are in God. We are known, every scape, every scratch, every scar, every hair, every breath.

Hagar in her toughest moments came to know that God is the one who sees us. God is the one who knows and loves us. We are seen by God.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Love Makes Hope Possible

“hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts…” - from Romans 5:5

There’s a direct correlation between our capacity to love and our ability to hope.

When our hearts are filled with God’s love, we understand that we are loved unconditionally, without hesitation or reservation. When our hearts are filled with God’s love we understand that everyone and everything is loved by God.

It is this love that causes us to desire the best for ourselves and for everyone else. We want to see redemption and restoration and not revenge and retribution. Love inspires us to make choices and take actions that make our hope for better lives and a better world possible.

Even if it happens that things don’t work out exactly the way we hope they will, we will never be ashamed of anything we do when we are centered in love and guided by hope.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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How We Overcome Hardship

“Affliction produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope” from Romans 5:3-4

Hardships and struggles are part of the human condition. But we must never allow ourselves to be defined by them. We must not allow ourselves to be limited by them. We must not allow hardship to become the main character in the stories we tell ourselves about our lives.

The first step to overcoming is enduring. When we endure a situation we understand that it is not permanent. Rather it is of a limited duration. We understand that “trouble doesn’t last always.” So we develop a character of hope.

Hope doesn’t allow us to give up or give in to the problems of the moment. We never stop seeking redemption, transformation, and deliverance. We keep fighting the good fight. And when we have done everything we can to stand, we keep standing.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Not Everyone Will Believe in You

“But others sneered and said, "They are filled with new wine." - Acts 2:13

On the day of their breakthrough, on the day of their miracle, on the day when God was moving mightily in their lives, and they were speaking the truth, there were people who still didn’t believe in them.

Despite all the evidence in their favor, some folks held their backgrounds against them. "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?.” They were nobodies from nowhere who had done nothing in particular to distinguish themselves in any way other than being faithful to the way.

They didn’t let other’s doubts stop them from using the gifts God had given them. They could have been silenced. They could have even doubted the truth of their own experience. But instead they continued to use their gifts “as the Spirit gave them ability.”

Not everyone is going to accept, affirm or praise us. Some are even going to deny the gifts that are readily apparent in us and dispute the validity of the work we are doing.

We can’t let this stop from being who we are empowered and enabled to be. We can’t let their lack of affirmation stop us from doing the work we are called and capable of doing.

When others fail to believe in our gifts, we must always believe in the one who gifted us.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Why Are We Building?

“Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves;” - Genesis 11:4

The story of Babel is the ancient scripture writer’s account of how humanity came to be so divided and unable to understand one another.

Up until this point humanity had been on one accord and capable of accomplishing darn near anything, even building a city with a tower reaching into the heavens themselves.

Why were they building this tower? It wasn’t because they wanted to be able to commune with God more easily so they wanted to build a tower to the heavens. It wasn’t because they wanted to inspire the hope that anything was possible. It wasn’t even a massive jobs program to make sure everyone could work.

The tower they were building was being built out of human ego, pride, and arrogance. It was being built for selfish reasons and self aggrandizing purposes.

What was the end result? Chaos, confusion and division were the inevitable results of selfish ambition. It’s not wrong for us to be ambitious. It’s not wrong for us to build. But we better know why.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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We Are Family

“…You received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, "Abba! Father!" It is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God..” from Romans 8:15-16

We have many identities, many ways of understanding ourselves, many ways of relating to the world. We use our identities to help us navigate through life.

We identify ourselves as individuals, as parts of our families, as part of our neighborhoods, schools, communities and countries. We identify ourselves by our age, ethnicity, economic and social class, gender, identity, and orientation. We identify ourselves by our religions, and or intellectual thought traditions.

These identities help us form and shape our relationships and give meaning and purpose to our lives.

Paul’s breakthrough came when he embraced his core identity as a child of God. He understood that he was God’s beloved. He understood that all of his neighbors were as well.

We are family. We are brothers and sisters, siblings in the family of God. Recognizing this as our core identity changes everything.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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