Grace and peace be with you from sunny Chuckatuck. June is shaping up to be a fairly pleasant month. Yes, we have rain and humidity but this past month has been a blessing. Work continues around the church grounds and our projects of the spring have turned out well. Sadly, the Japanese beetles have struck with a vengeance – but we’re doing our part to remove them from the landscape.
In church today, we were invited into scripture and “suffered” through the singing of Psalms 42 and 43 (all 14 stanzas – long for a psalm). But the theme of the psalm played well with the rest of our readings: that we should long for God’s word in our lives – like we long for water. We heard about Elijah running from Jezebel and being reminded that God is present, not only in the miraculous but in the mundane existence of our life. Paul reminded us that human distinctions have no standing in God’s kingdom. Because Jesus restored all creation to relationship with God ALL are part of God’s kingdom.
“What the Preacher meant to say,” While Paul relates the message as neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, man nor woman; we would do well to remember that all people are created by and in the image of God. Our mission is to find God in the present and share the redeeming message of reconciliation with God.
I invite your comments,
Les+
Readings: 1 Kings 19:1-15a; Psalm 42 & 43; Galatians 3:23-29; Luke 8:26-39
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