Thursday; February 20
I mention this most years about this time – it’s Baseball Time in America! Spring Training is up and running in Florida and Arizona. From the gloominess of my cold, cloudy world I can sense the laughter, hear the balls hitting the bats and smell the freshly mown grass! (OK, that’s an allegory – but, you get it.) I love the game of baseball and I really enjoy this time of year because everyone has a shot to win the pennant. This could be our year (whoever “we” are). Folks, by the time we get to the end middle of February, I can use a pick-me-up and, for me, it is Spring Training. As I thought about this bright spot in my life, I got to thinking about another “shot in the arm” found in the book of Revelation. There is a lot of difficult stuff in the book, but as we get to the end of the book we find John describing a new environment. He goes on to observe, “And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of Go...