Yesterday, a jury in Minneapolis found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of three charges in the murder of George Floyd. And while the verdict was being shared, a sixteen-year-old girl was killed by an officer responding to a 911 call on Columbus’ Southeast Side. These two events are reminders that we live with a double reality of comfort and grief, justice and injustice, hope and suffering, the already and the not-yet. This is also the nature of God’s kingdom. It is partially here, but not fully arrived. We have a long way to go as a church, as a community, and as a nation.