April 22, 2020
Dear SCC & Friends,
Update #7
I hope each of you are doing well…I continue to appreciate the many ways you have found to communicate and reach out. Our video podcast has been well received and will continue until we can meet again. We can’t forecast exactly when things will open up again, but we can use these days as opportunities to serve and bless. Last week we honored and prayed for our medical people, and this week we are focusing on our firemen, police and EMTs.
Recent weeks have been a time of major upheaval and uncertainty throughout our nation. The “abnormal” CDC recommendations are becoming the “new normal.” A favorite course of mine in college was abnormal psychology, because it dealt with people and situations outside the “norms” of society. One day, my professor asked me who was the most normal person I ever met? It didn’t take me long…I decided I was the most normal, even though my friends may have disagreed with that assessment. In a very real and spiritual way, none of us are normal…Yes, this is not a normal time, but then again, has there ever been a normal time? We stand in faith, knowing we are fearfully and wonderfully made…unique…distinctive…and personally loved and covered by God.
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, the days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day. ~Psalm 139:1-6 (The Message)
He absolutely knows our situation, and He is intimately acquainted with all our ways.
But as for me, I trust in Thee, O Lord, I say, “Thou art my God.” My times are in Thy hand… Psalm 31:14-15
Blessings in Christ’s love,
Kevin