Beautiful Day

I missed breakfast. Clients have been in and out all day - always underfoot. People have called incessantly all day and several have been unpleasant. My hair has a mind of its own today. Brian emptied my wallet of all my change and now I don’t have pennies for the gumball machine. There are all these things that I could point to and say "Oh, that’s not good. I must be having a bad day." But I have banned such thinking. Today, my friends, the glass is half full. Half full of what remains to be seen. But whatever it is, its good. I’m just not going to indulge the "ewwwww" stuff of this day for a moment. I am going to soak up the good stuff. By now, I am sure you are wondering what on earth could make an otherwise sarcastic, slightly cynical and hard-edged person (such as myself) so goofily giddy. Its March 1. Don’t think so hard - you might hurt yourself. Its not my birthday or anniversary or any official holiday. But we are celebrating something neat today. The people, the members, the family of Faith CRC officially welcome our new pastor tonight! While thrilling for us, Pastor Ryan Faber may be taking deep calming breaths as I type. We are terribly excited to open this new chapter. We’ve held together as best we could for 2+ years. I have truly seen the Lord at work in that time, equipping the called - people stepping up to do things and lead in ways that they never knew they were capable of - the family of God at Faith sincerely and humbly waiting to be blessed with a shepherd. Tonight is the celebration of His blessing - not just the new pastor. We have survived as a family. We have come through a challenge intact and whole. We have been strengthened in ways we never imagined. And tonight, we stand up to thank God for taking us through this journey - for carrying us when we could not walk. It’s a special day. Tonight we will gather in our normal pews, in our normal church clothes, amongst familiar faces, and we will thank Him for something truly extraordinary - a family of God being made whole.

I’m sitting at my desk. The window is open. It is glorious outside. It’s a drive-with-your-window-rolled-down kind of day. The same way we see God’s sun shining down on us is the same way we FEEL God’s SON shining IN and ON us.