For Such A Time As This 050520 – Dennis Lohr
Help Us Celebrate Mother’s Day!
We are putting together a Mother’s Day slide show as part of our virtual service. You can help by sending us:
Joys and Concerns
If you have a joy or concern you would like us to share and pray about, please call, text or email it to me. If you would like it included in our Sunday Worship sharing and prayer time, please share it with me that week by Friday morning.
Joys!
To all who call others to check in on them and share our emails and devotions.
Today’s Devotion:
I have composed today’s devotion. I hope you find it inspiring!
Shalom,
Dennis
Scripture – Genesis 1:26a
Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness…”
Thoughts:
If you ask a child to draw a picture, they will grab some crayons and paper and begin drawing, fully confident that they can accomplish what you have asked. Somewhere on the journey to adulthood, many of us lose that confidence. Perhaps someone critiqued our artwork, or we looked at what others could do and decided that ours was not good enough. So, we stopped being confident and eventually stopped all together. Of course, there is much to learn about drawing a good picture. Good artists grow, learn, mature and develop technique. But what about the lost artists?
The scripture text above tells us two things. First, we are made by God! God is an artist! Second, we are made in God’s image! We are artists! We are made to be makers! We are created to be creators!
Not all of us like to draw. Some prefer to paint or to sculpt. Some of us like to sew and others like to bake. Some of us like to plant and others like to build. I like to make things out of wood. What do you like to create? Maybe you are a dancer, or a writer, or an engineer, or programmer. Maybe Legos are your clay, or perhaps Lincoln Logs, or Tinker Toys. How long has it been since you played in the sand?
We get so busy, so focused on producing, maybe we forget to create, to make, to play, to be artists. Find some time in the next few hours or days to be an artist. This is not an assignment, but an invitation. An invitation to draw a little closer to your Creator by creating something awesome. We are made in the image of an artist! Nurture the artist in you!
Prayer:
Creator God, whisper gently to our spirits, inviting us to create, to imagine, to play. Fill our hearts with laughter as we add color and song and shape and expression to our world. And having engaged in such holy work, may we hear your creation blessing, “And it is good!” Amen.
We are putting together a Mother’s Day slide show as part of our virtual service. You can help by sending us:
- A picture or scan of an original drawing of a flower. You can dedicate your flower to someone by writing their name on the drawing, saying something like:
- “I love you, (their name or what you call them). From: (your name or what they call you)” or
- “Thanks, (their name or what you call them), for being my Mom (or mother, or like a mom/mother to me)!” or something like that. From: (your name or what they call you).”
- Take a picture of yourself holding a sign with something written on it like:
- “I love you, (their name or what you call them).
- “Thanks, (their name or what you call them) ,for being my Mom (or mother, or like a mom/mother to me)!” or something like that.
Joys and Concerns
If you have a joy or concern you would like us to share and pray about, please call, text or email it to me. If you would like it included in our Sunday Worship sharing and prayer time, please share it with me that week by Friday morning.
Joys!
- Our son, Tim Lohr, has achieved the rank of Lieutenant 2 with the North Middleton Fire Company, #39. He has worked hard and is very proud. So are we!
To all who call others to check in on them and share our emails and devotions.
Today’s Devotion:
I have composed today’s devotion. I hope you find it inspiring!
Shalom,
Dennis
Scripture – Genesis 1:26a
Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness…”
Thoughts:
If you ask a child to draw a picture, they will grab some crayons and paper and begin drawing, fully confident that they can accomplish what you have asked. Somewhere on the journey to adulthood, many of us lose that confidence. Perhaps someone critiqued our artwork, or we looked at what others could do and decided that ours was not good enough. So, we stopped being confident and eventually stopped all together. Of course, there is much to learn about drawing a good picture. Good artists grow, learn, mature and develop technique. But what about the lost artists?
The scripture text above tells us two things. First, we are made by God! God is an artist! Second, we are made in God’s image! We are artists! We are made to be makers! We are created to be creators!
Not all of us like to draw. Some prefer to paint or to sculpt. Some of us like to sew and others like to bake. Some of us like to plant and others like to build. I like to make things out of wood. What do you like to create? Maybe you are a dancer, or a writer, or an engineer, or programmer. Maybe Legos are your clay, or perhaps Lincoln Logs, or Tinker Toys. How long has it been since you played in the sand?
We get so busy, so focused on producing, maybe we forget to create, to make, to play, to be artists. Find some time in the next few hours or days to be an artist. This is not an assignment, but an invitation. An invitation to draw a little closer to your Creator by creating something awesome. We are made in the image of an artist! Nurture the artist in you!
Prayer:
Creator God, whisper gently to our spirits, inviting us to create, to imagine, to play. Fill our hearts with laughter as we add color and song and shape and expression to our world. And having engaged in such holy work, may we hear your creation blessing, “And it is good!” Amen.
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