text: (Part two-a of two)  “Our soul waits for the LORD, who is our help and our shield.  May your kindness, O LORD, be upon s who have put our hope in you” Psalm 33 ;20 and 22) and not in Republican dominated health care proposals.  Or as Genesis 12:9 intimates, “then Abram journeyed on by stages to the Negeb.”  What is scary for freedom of religion here is that “Abram . . . took . . . the persons they had acquired in Haran” (Genesis 12:5).  The reason that is scary is some will use that to deny freedom of religion.  The Word requires interpretation by the Faithful as circumstances change from era to era.  That is why Hebrews reports, “The word of God is living and effective” (Hebrews 4:12), meaning love changes as times change.  “Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye” (Matthew 7:5).