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Post-election musings (non-political) by Neel Woods

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2020 is a year that we will tell our grandkids about just like earlier generations would recall the Kennedy assassination or 9/11. Twenty years from now, how will you remember 2020?  With the presidential outcome still in limbo and everyone experiencing emotional fatigue from COVID and the election, not to mention more tangible burdens like critical family illnesses, job losses, racial injustice, and even toilet paper shortages, I'm trying to think a little outside the box.  John  Piper preached a memorable sermon in Feb, '09 called What is the Recession For? that reflected on the financial meltdown of '08. In it, he cited five different ways that God was using this hardship to His purposes.  One of those ways I can't forget is that God was using the crisis to expose sin, whether personal, national, societal, or otherwise. It seems that in this election season more than ever before, we are apt to vilify those who are supporting the other candidate. Lying, soc...