2026?!

  Now, listen carefully. Be honest.  Does it not boggle your mind that as of midnight tonight it will be 2026?  Don’t act like I’m the only one.  It is simply astounding to consider that we have reached the year, 2026!

            As someone who grew up watching the Jetsons, may I share with you a few of my disappointments?  I would certainly have thought by now that the flying car would have been a thing. I know that we have the smart cars that drive on their own. And AI (artificial intelligence for those not paying attention) is truly changing lives.  But I would have expected the robot maid, and the kitchen that George and Jane utilized should be in every home by now, right?

            The truth is that the advancements made in technology, medicine, travel, agriculture, and so many other areas of our daily lives have been overwhelming.  My grandparents didn’t get an indoor bathroom until 1969. And then it was only a closet converted to a half-bathroom. Neither of them ever stepped foot on an airplane.  PaPa refused to believe that the moon-landing actually took place.

            Today our homes have multiple bathrooms with features that we could not imagine ten years ago. The continued advancements keep coming, and they make our lives both more complicated and simpler at the same time.  I’m dating myself, but sometimes I want to scream, “Calgon, take me away!”

            What keeps us grounded in this day and age when everything changes so quickly? I would simply say that the One who is able to help us is the One who created us, sustains us, and is ever with us. God in heaven alone can give peace in the eye of the storm. Paul called it, “the peace that passes all understanding” in the letter he wrote the Philippians. 

            I pray that you will have that peace as we enter this next year. We don’t know what 2026 will bring. But we can know the One who does, and we can trust Him for everything that we need. I pray that you will do just that.

            Happy New Year!