Reading and teaching from Isaiah 41 (and 63) this week as a lens for now: here’s what I’m getting in a nutshell: Don’t fear, instead rejoice, and tell God stories…
  The great and most erudite of the prophets Isaiah has this great chapter set at the end of the world. There are three characters in this passage: God, His friends, and those who are building idols of one sort of another.
  God’s friends are asked to do three things in times of shaking and idol building: not to be afraid, to actually rejoice instead, and to tell the stories of God’s kindnesses.
  Nothing has changed in terms of the correct response to turbulent times. Practice actively (whatever practices help you not move in fear) not moving in the ways of fear, actually rejoice as a sign that God is still here, and tell stories (in whatever medium you choose), past and present of all God’s kindnesses.
  God stories make room for God to be here. Or as Madeleine L’Engle wrote: “Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories.”