It is our message too. It is the worry we live with in our lives. We worry, and that worry keeps us from the Kingdom Jesus envisioned. It is our doubt that is just as human as it can be. It teaches us too if we will let it.
Life is uncertain really.
Now we all know. We all know the difference between a hanging chad and a swinging chad and a pregnant chad. There is a great story about the legislature in colonial Connecticut meeting in Hartford in the mid-18th century. At the time of the start of a solar eclipse, astronomical knowledge not being as widespread then as now, some legislators believed the darkening sky was the beginning of the end of the world and heralded the imminent return of Christ in the flesh. They wanted to dismiss the session.