If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

We're remembering both the good and the bad in our history together in this world. This isn't an attempt to make people feel bad every morning and to force them to go stick their fingers in a wall socket. We chose these things we included as a way to point people toward the possibility of transformation even while remembering the great pain we have experienced as humanity.

We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.

Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world.