Reaching out from Grand Lake Community Chapel
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Greetings in Christ!
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it! Let us rejoice that we have been given the opportunity to test the furnaces in our homes before the traditional heating season begins, and let us be glad that the forecast is for a warm and sunny Labor Day holiday! Wow, was it cold this morning; not mid-January cold, but plenty cold enough for the end of August! As we write this message, it’s bright and sunny, and beginning to warm up a bit, for which we are grateful. But the early morning temperature sure got our attention!
Isn’t it interesting how things that don’t fit with our expectations can throw us for a loop? Cold temperatures in August leave us scrambling for the sweaters buried in the back of our closets, unexpected rain finds us running for shelter, and as the fall sports season unfolds, upset losses by our favorite teams can throw us into days of sadness. While these “bad” things can be upsetting, there are “good” things that don’t fit with our expectations too. A phone call or visit from a long-lost friend or family member is a delight, but makes us late for a meeting. A neighbor drops off freshly-baked bread, but we’ve just gotten home from the local bakery with a loaf of our favorite. A healthy baby is born a few weeks early, and we haven’t purchased a gift yet. It’s fairly safe to say that, good or bad, our plans will likely need some adjusting; but it’s also fairly safe to say that “such is life”. The predictability and precision that many of us crave is really quite rare, and our carefully-developed plans don’t often work out exactly as we had hoped. Even those plans that we pray over, trusting that God will bless them and bring them to fruition exactly as we wish, don’t always play out as intended. There’s an old saying that tells us if you want to make God laugh, tell him you have a plan… One of the keys to contentment is the ability to be flexible and adaptive as each day unfolds, and to trust that God has a hand in the planning. And try to laugh along with God as your plans change to meet his will.
God bless you!
Karen and Greg
Home: (989) 474-9116, Cell: (734) 502-5969 revgregrc@yahoo.com / revgreggl@yahoo.com revkarenrc@yahoo.com / revkarengl@yahoo.com
The mind of man plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps. Proverbs 16:9
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