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Malachi 3:1-6

We began Advent last week with the words of comfort from God to a people longing to go home.  Now we open the very last book of the Old Testament, the last of what are called the 12 minor prophets, likely placed here in Christian Bibles as a segway to the New Testament and the arrival of Jesus in the neighborhood.  In contrast, the Hebrew Scriptures place the all of the prophets before the books of what is grouped as “the other writings”– not the law or the history or the prophets– writings like the psalms, proverbs, Daniel, etc.  This tiny little prophetic book

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Isaiah 6:1-8

So today we gather together at the beginning of a transition time from one president to another.  Change comes with every new president, of course.  Every four years brings hope for some and despair for others.   I know some are very happy that Mr. Trump won, and some are very sad.  Some people are angry enough to protest.  Some people are talking about leaving the country.  We have neighbors who are afraid of being deported, or of losing health insurance.  Many who have felt forgotten finally feel that they have been listened to.  Some see the pendulum swinging the right way.  Others still feel forgotten, pushed aside by those in power.

No matter where you sit on the continuum of responses to the presidential election, you can not help but see that our country is deeply divided.

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