Personal and Political MiraclesRev. Dr. Robin Meyers, First Congregational Church of Norman, UCC - November 8, 2026Scripture: Psalm 23Robin wrote this sermon in a hospital room. For a week he and Shawn lived at Baptist Integris while she went through open heart surgery to repair a mitral valve, and he takes us inside that experience: the miracle of medicine that can stop a heart and start it again, the helplessness of watching someone you love connected to more wires and tubes than seems possible, and the kind of faith that becomes "a necessity beyond naming or knowing." He tells us about their three grown children taking turns through the nights, and how next to great kids, there is no better blessing than a great community.From there he turns to a second miracle, the election that same week. He opens with a prayer for the newly elected, asking that they go to Washington to serve and not to perform, and remember that either all of us matter or none of us do. He reflects on what voters said about character, decency and diversity, on two progressive pastors from our neck of the woods who asked a nation to go back and read the Sermon on the Mount, and on the hope that leaders now choose accountability without revenge. Along the way there is Shelley's Ozymandias, a Mark Twain line about democracy's death being greatly exaggerated, and a congregation that cannot quite agree whether to say "thank you, Jesus" or "thank you, God."It ends where it began, with the Twenty-Third Psalm, a table prepared, a cup that overflows, and a repaired heart with many more years ahead.00:00 A Prayer for the Elected02:35 Scripture: Psalm 2303:39 A Sermon Written in a Hospital Room06:01 Three Amazing Kids06:57 A Week of Miracles08:32 A Wave of Firsts10:51 Thank the Good Lord for Oklahoma?12:40 Kansas, Texas, and Two Preachers14:57 Accountability, Not Revenge18:59 Back to the Sermon on the Mount22:02 The Ozymandias Election22:53 A Repaired Heart23:30 Go in Peace