God.

We are a sad and fearful people. Not all of us, of course. Some of us some of the time are happy and confident. And we don’t want to be fearful. But all of us know that we will face pain and will face death. And it shapes our thinking.

Sometimes we work hard to avoid pain. Sometimes we work hard to ignore life. We mostly wish we were better at accepting life.

We confess that we have spent more time this week worrying about what might happen than we have celebrating what we coul...