Dear PCUM family,

If the world or life seems troubled and broken beyond repair, Nelson Mandela's words below can remind us that, in the arc of human history, God's will for good and for hope for reconciliation is being done. As hard as it is, it's worth it to hang in there.

Mandela once said:

“If calamities had the weight of physical objects, we should long have been crushed down, or else, we should by now have been hunchbacked, unsteady on our feet, and with faces full of gloom and utter despair. Yet my entire body throbs with life and is full of expectations. Each day brings a fresh stock of experiences and new dreams.”

— Nelson Mandela

in a 1970 letter to his wife, Winnie Mandela,

while incarcerated in the Robbin Island Prison, South Africa.

Mandela was released in 1990.

In Christ's peace,

Pastor Greg