Senior Pastor Laura Truax has been on the pastoral staff for 7 years; she became senior pastor in 2004. Rev. Truax has a Master’s of Arts in Pastoral Studies with an emphasis in Spirituality and a Master’s of Divinity from Loyola University. Rev. Truax is a teaching pastor at the University of Chicago.We are the ones we’ve been waiting for
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for!” Barack Obama thundered last night as Super Tuesday came to a close.
I love that line.
It comes from one of the last chapters in Jim Wallis’ book “God’s Politics.” We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
It echoes Annie Dillard from “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” as she considers the arc of human history. There’s never been a more heroic time, Dillard says. There was never a time when people always knew what to do and how to do it. There was never a time when people were sure of the path and confident of the outcomes.
“There’s never been anybody here but us chickens.” That’s it. Just us. And we are the ones that are asked: to step up, to stand in the gap. We are the ones we’ve been waiting on: to do something for the 47 million without health insurance; to act on behalf of the 3 billion living on less than $2/day. We are the ones called to be reconcilers, healers, and prophets.
Just us. A bunch of chickens. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
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