Reaching out from Grand Lake Community Chapel
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Greetings in Christ!
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it! Let us rejoice in the ongoing joys of summer Up North, and let us be glad that we have several more months of it available for us to enjoy! It’s amazing to think (or to be reminded) that we are blessed to live where lots of people come for vacation, so let’s try to carve some “vacation” time out of every week for ourselves; and we don’t have to drive anywhere!
And as we go about delighting in where we live, let us also delight in the friends with whom we share it. Friends are a very special gift from God, and yet it has been reported that in the United States 12% of us say they have no friends at all, and nearly half of us have only one or two close friends. To be fair, there are lots of definitions for “friend” out there, ranging from casual acquaintances to lifelong, deep relationships, but the sad fact is that lots of us are going through life in virtual isolation. And that’s tragic, because we are not designed to “go it alone” in this life. It’s been said that a friend is someone who knows everything about you, and likes you anyway; which sounds an awful lot like Jesus Christ, doesn’t it? Jesus puts a great deal of emphasis on the friendship he has with his disciples, and one of the best-loved hymns in the Christian world is “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.” If you find yourself amongst those who have few, if any, friends, we invite you to consider that you have one very good friend in the person of Jesus; and that you have the opportunity to have many, many friends if you’ll look around the sanctuary on Sunday morning. There we all share a common friend, who can facilitate our relationships with each other, if we’re willing to take the chance.
Blessings,
Karen and Greg
Home: (989) 474-9116, Cell: (734) 502-5969
revgregrc@yahoo.com / revgreggl@yahoo.com
revkarenrc@yahoo.com / revkarengl@yahoo.com
Two are better than one, because they have
a good return for their labor: Ecclesiastes 4:9
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