March 27, 2019

Turning

This is the third week of Lent.

How are you doing with your Lenten discipline? Are you still maintaining it, or have you somehow turned aside from that particular discipline? If you've turned aside, you can turn back and pick it up again; because it's not the fact that we've failed which we should dwell on, but it's the fact that we can always find time to turn back to God.

We turned our clocks forward by an hour about two weeks ago. The clocks don't determine how much daylight there actually is in our lives, but I will say that I enjoy turning from the dark evenings to lighter evenings has a good feel to it. And it's always nice for me to watch the morning hours also slowly turn from dark to light.

The calendar says that Spring has come. The actual weather has yet to get that memo. Although I did receive a weather notification on my phone that indicated the weather was making a sudden turn to May-like temperatures this week. After the wet football season and the cold, wet, snowy winter, I am certainly looking forward to the turn in weather.

With all the rain we had, the sun room in our house revealed several leaks that, upon closer inspection, had been there for some time. I'm not quite sure why the previous owner(s) never dealt with them, especially since the room was under warranty at that time, but those leaks have been turned over to us. The room is now out of warranty and we had a difficult time getting the contractor out to repair the damage. But as I write this, I believe the contractor will be getting close to the end of the project. This means that we are starting to look forward to turning that room from a repository for buckets of all kinds into what it was originally designed for.

And in the office we are turning our attention toward Holy Week. Last year's bulletins are being turned into this year's bulletins. Hymns are being turned over in our minds as we make final selections. Drafts are being created, edited, and turned in for final approval, just waiting for Melonie to hit the “Print” button.

With all of the busyness of this time of year, I hope you don't get lost or overwhelmed with it all. And in all things, I hope you remember that you can always turn from that which pulls you away from God to refocus and turn back to the Lord.

Blessings,