Happy New Year! As we reflect on 2018 and look forward to what 2019 might bring, let us invite God into our hopes and dreams, our concerns and our worries. The only barrier between ourselves and God is our own sin and pride, let these go. Offer again your heart to God, to be opened to those who need the light to shine from you so they may see the path to grace. God’s gift to us is grace, but the freedom and light grace brings is not simply to held on to and kept for a rainy day-who among us can hold back the light? Once the light begins to shine it cannot be contained, it must move, radiate, and warm those it reaches out to. Let us embrace the light around us, let us shine with God’s love in all we do, let us bring the gift of love into all of life’s sordid affairs so we may be at peace with everyone and everything in 2019!

Jesus says to us in the Scriptures:

“…this is the judgment: Light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.” John 3:19-21

So let us come to the light! Let us reject evil and let our love shine so we may bring about positive change with peace in our hearts. Let us have a awesomely blessed 2019!

I say again Happy New Year! Pastor Donnie