Daily Manna · Day 243 · August 31
New Heavens and New Earth
“Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”
A woman turns the news off mid-sentence and stands in her kitchen with her hand still on the remote.
Peter offers her no exit. He offers an address, and it is not his invention: according to his promise, he says, reaching back for Isaiah's new heavens and new earth. Then he names who lives there. Righteousness dwelleth. Not visits on its better days. Dwells, the way you live in a house.
May you be made at home in that place long before you ever see it.
Daily Manna runs on a two-year cycle. The year two reading for day 243 is Who May Say It (Genesis 45:5).