IT WILL HELP US A LOT 300 Hawthorne Lane, Suite 205, Charlotte, NC 28204 phone 704/521-6051 * fax 704/521-6053 * www.bpfna.org if you would let us know if this is not your preferred email address. Please send updated contact information to scott@bpfna.org or call 704-521-6051. So let us live in hope and begin to make the victory celebration happen on earth as it is in heaven. Let us grieve, with hope that a day is coming when these tears will be wiped away and there will be an end to the pain and suffering. Let us live in hope that one day we will indeed learn to live and party together in ways that build up and don't tear down. We will trust each other completely because we will know even as we are fully known. We will stand in awe of something far greater than any of us. We will feast fully as brothers and sisters at God's table and, as we break bread together on this side of the celebration, we claim its presence on the mountain of God and right here on God's earth among us. This is our mountain. May we learn to live and grieve and love like those who are on their way to an amazing party. The table is set, the wine is poured. Let us continue on the journey together. Amen. -Erin Conaway -Erin Conaway is pastor of Seventh & James Baptist Church in Waco, TX. Seventh & James is a BPFNA Partner Congregation and houses the office where Baptist Peacemaker is edited. The art above is by Andy Loving and originally appeared on a cover of Seeds Magazine during its inaugural year.http://www.bpfna.org