A few years ago, there was a dispute over which was the tallest building in our country. That distinction had been held by a building in Chicago that most of us have known as the Sears Tower, but is now called the Willis Tower. I remember that my Sunday school teacher in Chicago was one of the construction workers on that building when it was built in the early 1970s, which was big deal in that city. In fact, the Sears tower was the tallest building in the world for 25 years. However, the New World Trade Center in New York was hoping to capture that honor. A committee of expert architects had to decide if the tower on top of the New World Trade Center was an actual part of the building, or if it should be considered as a part that was added onto the building structure, sort of like a radio antenna, and thus not included in its official height. The committee of architects ruled in favor of the New World Trade Center. There is always a lot of pride and bragging rights for a city to claim the tallest building in the country or the tallest building in the world. We try to build bigger, better, and taller structures, but ultimately they will be like the Temple in Jerusalem – doomed to fall, doomed to be destroyed. The one eternal aspect of our lives here on earth is our faith. Our faith can last until eternity if we foster it and nurture it and let it grow and develop. Life will challenge us in many different ways, but our faith will get us through. May we cling to that hope. May we endure in our faith.
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