Reaching out from Grand Lake Community Chapel
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Greetings in Christ!
This the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it! Let us rejoice in gentle breezes and puffy clouds, and let us be glad that the temperatures have moderated a bit! Summertime Up North is such a wonderful, marvelous place; sometimes we take for granted all that we have been blessed with, including where we live and where so many come for rest and relaxation. Our hope and prayer is that everyone reading this message can get out and enjoy the beauty that surrounds us every day.
We can’t ignore recent events, neither are we going to dwell on them; we will only say that we must, must find ways to disagree without being disagreeable. Violence is never an acceptable response to differences of opinion. As has been said many times in recent days, the national temperature has to be dialed down. A lot. There are many passages of Scripture that speak to the subject of conflict, but the bottom line from each of them is that we are to come together and work through our differences with an attitude of kindness and forgiveness; as Jesus says in Luke 6:27 “love your enemies, and do good to those who hate you.” Hopefully there isn’t hatred amongst us to be dealt with, but we are not so naive as to think that there aren’t differences of opinion that can become heated at times; the events of last week should serve as a cautionary tale about how easily “heated” can become “violent.” Let us resolve to come and reason together when we disagree, as Isaiah tells us to do in the beginning of his writings (Isaiah 1:18), and let us resolve to be peacemakers, for then we shall be called children of God.
Blessings,
Karen and Greg
Home: (989) 474-9116, Cell: (734) 502-5969 revgregrc@yahoo.com / revgreggl@yahoo.com revkarenrc@yahoo.com / revkarengl@yahoo.com
Love your enemies, and do good to those who hate you. Luke 6:27
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