Reaching out from Grand Lake Community Chapel
Wednesday, September 20, 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 beautiful late-summer day that is ours to enjoy, and let us be glad that truly cold temperatures are still a few weeks away (we hope…). Yes, many of our furnaces were running early this morning, but the day in Presque Isle County promises to warm up a bit, and the next few days are expected to be very nice; so let’s all try to get out and revel in the blessings of nature that surround us!
As nice as the next few days are predicted to be, the fact is that summer officially comes to an end this coming Saturday. Endings are very often difficult for us to deal with, be it the ending of a season, the ending of a relationship, or the ending of a well-lived life; many of us mourn the endings that present themselves to us, and rightfully so. We’ll miss the warmth of summer days, and that makes us melancholy. We’ll miss the familiarity of a relationship with another person or group. We’ll most certainly miss the presence of a loved one who has gone on before us into the Church Triumphant. But we must remember that each ending brings with it a new beginning; a new season to enjoy, new friends to know better, and the peace and comfort that comes from the sure and certain promise of the Resurrection of our Lord that we will be reunited with our loved ones in due time. It’s OK to be sad when endings intrude on our happiness, but it’s not OK to stay sad when beginnings present themselves. It’s OK to remember what had been before the ending, either fondly or ruefully; it’s not OK to be paralyzed by the past and stop living the today that has been gifted to us – or the tomorrow that awaits. Remembering that God is good, all the time, and all the time, God is good can help us keep ourselves in a place of balance and joy.
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
And he is before all things,
and in him all things hold together. Colossians 1:17
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