Steadfast
God’s steadfast love never ceases; God’s mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning: great is your faithfulness. – Lamentations 3:22-23 (adapted)
We get our writing assignments for the Daily Devotional long before their publication dates, so I’m writing this one five weeks before the election. It’s scheduled to appear the day after. Which means I’m clueless.
I don’t know if it was a squeaker, a landslide, or if we’re still waiting to find out. I don’t know if the pollsters were right or if they have egg on their faces. I don’t know if candidates are conceding or crowing with hopeful visions or dystopian rants.
I don’t know if you stayed up watching the returns or opted for a stiff drink and a trashy book. I don’t know if you’re planning a happy bash tonight or packing your bags for Canada or Fiji or wherever you swore you’d go if the worst happened.
I don’t know how happily, sadly, or indifferently this day has dawned for you or me or for our country. But I believe this: in ways that really matter, this post-election day, momentous as it is, is no different from any other day.
Like every day, it is a gift from God, a new and pregnant mercy.
Like every day, it is a precious clearing in which to meet again the Steadiness that undergirds all change and chance, and in that meeting to believe again that no matter what befalls us or our fragile democracy, God will not fail to hold us night and morning.
Like every day, on this day God will not fail to will and work the good of all creation. God will not fail to call us to partner in that willing and that working. God will not fail to be God.
Prayer
Unceasing are your mercies, new every morning. Great is your faithfulness!
About the AuthorMary Luti is a long time seminary educator and pastor, author of Teresa of Avila’s Way and numerous articles, and founding member of The Daughters of Abraham, a national network of interfaith women’s book groups.