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It was a bittersweet morning as Debbie and I dropped off Olivia to begin third grade. For those of you who don't remember, Olivia was baptized here 9 months old. Cassie officially begins middle school next week and when we began here she was in Pre-K. It also rained today. For the first time in many weeks. These seemingly different events all serve to remind me that things change.
We all want to go back to the glory times of the 1960's and 70's when churches were built in neighborhoods and filled to capacity in months....but things change. Change is a scary word, especially in churches. There is comfort in knowing that each and every day we will be greeted with certainty and routine yet things change. Each and every day things change.
We can deal with this change because of two things. One is to understand that change is good. When times are tough, there is hope. When the routine becomes boring, there is a new day. When our faith begins to wane, there is a sunrise in the morning. I always remember a biology teacher once explaining that if we are not changing or growing we are dying. Change is good. The other way we can deal with change is to know that one thing doesn't change, God's love for us. In Romans Paul reminds us that there is nothing that can separate us from God's love. No sin we commit, no doubt we harbor, no pain we fee\l, can separate us from God's love. His love doesn't change and is with us always.
Kids grow up, they're supposed to; we grow older, we're supposed to; weather changes, stock markets rise and fall. Everything around us changes, yet God's love never does.
Love,
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For eight years St. Luke's has opened it's doors to our neighborhood school for teachers and staff to have lunch together and kick off the fall semester. The people of St. Luke's are pleased to honor the teachers and staff as a way to say thanks for everything they do for the children in their care during the school year.