Holy Redeemer Lutheran Church

     "The games afoot, Watson!" Famous words from Sherlock Holmes. Apropos for our day. There is a new game afoot. Another way of saying it lately is "There is a movement growing." I don't know how many times I have been told that lately.

     Things are going on. If you pay attention to the news:

     The luster has worn off of "the Ahnuld," or so it seems. The governor of shine and no substance seems to be sinking rapidly in the polls. Growing numbers of people are turning out to protest his every appearance - and he is more and more sarcastic about their presence. I guess that one can't just say that the most vital people in the state - police and fire persons and teachers and nurses - are nothing but special interest groups and still be taken seriously as a Governor worth supporting. I guess that one can't lie about funding for education and continue to shortchange every child in our state and still have their parents support.

     The resident of the White House continues to rattle sabers and work for huge tax breaks for his rich friends. He has led our country to the position of "laughing stock of the world" and the majority of people who live in other countries see him as the greatest threat to peace in the world today. Over 1500 brave men and women have now died in a war that the public was tricked into supporting, and which was started based upon lies and cover-ups. And, there seems to be no regard for truth or the feelings of the people of the land when it comes to the proposed privatization of social security. I have to wonder who is going to get rich on that one!

     And, people are growing tired of all of it! Like those dry bones of long ago we are coming together, and a new spirit is blowing across our land. People are rising up to say: "NO!" The dry bones of this people, that seem to have no hope, are stirring, and coalitions are being formed. The spirit of rebellion is rumbling among them as nurses travel across the land hunting down the Governor and as coalitions come together to work against the horrendous changes that have been proposed by the hack actor that has turned into a hack politician. The spirit of rebellion is rumbling among them as families of soldiers begin to question the war in Iraq, as scandals spring up among key administration leaders and advisors, as more and more lies are exposed.

     Pray, my friends, that like those long ago bones the people of this land might come together and stand up, that the spirit of life might come upon them, and that like a vast multitude we might take back this land and start it on a new path of compassion and peace - that we might become a place of jubilee and of God's Sabbath Economic. God has done it before - God can do it now!

     Aye, the game's afoot. May it purge us of that which has beset us and bring us forth anew.