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In Anticipation of the Great Day

Over the last year we were informed that the world would end on December 21, 2012 due to the Mayan calendar ending on that day. Well, nothing traumatic happened to the world at large so the Mayan calendar had no mystical meaning and served no other purpose than to make some people rich from selling books about the end of the world and expounding on Mayan history. So I suppose this exercise did serve the purpose of bringing people together (at least those that bought into this idea) who were preparing not to be here this morning. Throughout the ages and several times in my lifetime someone or some group has come out to say the world is going to end on such and such a day. Oh they always have a good explanation on why this particular day is going to be the end of everything as we know it but alas the disaster and calamity never occurs. But what if the world had ended yesterday? What would be different? How would we prepare for such an event? Most of us would be praying maybe call