Pastor Patricia’s Pauses

Here we are, looking ahead to February. This time of year, seems to be about routine, reorganizing and rearranging our lives. We may or may not have kept our New Year’s Resolutions. I never really make any, so I don’t have to worry about keeping them!

I saw a post of Facebook this past week that said: “January, the longest month of the year!” It seems like January has drug on and on. But before you know it, Valentine’s Day is here, and Spring is just around the corner!

Our winter weather hasn’t been too terrible this year. It seems like we got most of our winter in October. I saw on the news the other day that we need the moisture and we are almost in a draught situation. Hard to believe, really. Maybe it is the effect of global warming. The weather is just another one of those things out of our control. We simply react to it.

When one thinks of our denomination, we are faced with General Conference, 2020. There are so many unknowns about where our denomination will go from here. Will we split? Will we find a way to stay truly “United”? The times are chaotic, yet there is an expectation in the air of where we will end up.

In our local church, it seems that life goes on as usual. Our attendance on Sundays is gradually increasing and it seems like the involvement of folks is increasing. No matter what happens to the global church, I find comfort in the fact that we are a tight body of believers. It seems to me that we have been through worse times and we will pull together through this as well.

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