by Marcia Mount Shoop
Mark 13:24-37
“The Gospel writer is saying, don’t mistake the tumult of our time for reason to despair. This upheaval is the palate for God’s power to manifest–God’s capacity to birth a new world from the grip of great travail. God’s birthing power is not deterred by the destruction of the world as we know it. That destruction is the labor pangs in full force.”