For Such A Time As This 050820 – Karen Haldeman
To the Good Folk of the Palmyra Church of the Brethren,
Sunday Worship Service:
Sunday morning, around 8am, you will receive an email with a link to this Sunday's Worship service. Our worship times in May will hopefully remind, challenge and encourage us as we continue this journey through a COVID-19 world. This Sunday I will be preaching on the topic “Be Church.” The service includes some great music, a time of sharing, and prayers. We will also be celebrating Mother’s Day. Please join us as we gather in spirit through our virtual worship service.
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.
Thank You:
To all who call others to check in on them and share our emails and devotions.
Today’s Devotion:
I am thankful to Karen Haldeman for providing today’s devotion. I am thankful for Karen’s favorite window seat in her home. It is truly a place of inspiration. If you wish to respond to Karen directly, her email address is kbhaldeman@verizon.net.
Shalom,
Dennis
Scripture - Psalm 139:12
“Even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.”
Thoughts:
There are no street or city lights to illuminate the rural area where Tim and I live. In fact, it can be pretty dark at night around here! I was thinking about this night-time darkness one night as I sat at my favorite window seat in my lighted home and looked outside. From this perspective, the dark night outside looked pitch black. I could not see beyond the light circle cast by my lamp…not the bird feeders on the deck railing, not the car in the driveway, not even the silhouette of the garden shed.
But then I recalled the nights that I go outside to look at the stars or listen to the crickets’ lullaby. I don’t need electric lights to get around my yard then; the light from the stars or moon or even the light reflecting off clouds is enough to light my steps. There may not be enough light to read a book, but there is more than enough to prevent me from walking into the shed or falling down the deck steps.
What makes the difference? Could it be that living in light makes the darkness seem like blindness until our eyes adjust? Could it be that the “dark nights” of our souls are actually less dark than we fear? Could it be that light really exists amid darkness?
We are living in times that can feel pretty dark. What light have you been noticing these days? You’ll discover there is enough.
Prayer:
O Maker of light, show us Your light in our darkness.
Sunday Worship Service:
Sunday morning, around 8am, you will receive an email with a link to this Sunday's Worship service. Our worship times in May will hopefully remind, challenge and encourage us as we continue this journey through a COVID-19 world. This Sunday I will be preaching on the topic “Be Church.” The service includes some great music, a time of sharing, and prayers. We will also be celebrating Mother’s Day. Please join us as we gather in spirit through our virtual worship service.
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.
Thank You:
To all who call others to check in on them and share our emails and devotions.
Today’s Devotion:
I am thankful to Karen Haldeman for providing today’s devotion. I am thankful for Karen’s favorite window seat in her home. It is truly a place of inspiration. If you wish to respond to Karen directly, her email address is kbhaldeman@verizon.net.
Shalom,
Dennis
Scripture - Psalm 139:12
“Even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.”
Thoughts:
There are no street or city lights to illuminate the rural area where Tim and I live. In fact, it can be pretty dark at night around here! I was thinking about this night-time darkness one night as I sat at my favorite window seat in my lighted home and looked outside. From this perspective, the dark night outside looked pitch black. I could not see beyond the light circle cast by my lamp…not the bird feeders on the deck railing, not the car in the driveway, not even the silhouette of the garden shed.
But then I recalled the nights that I go outside to look at the stars or listen to the crickets’ lullaby. I don’t need electric lights to get around my yard then; the light from the stars or moon or even the light reflecting off clouds is enough to light my steps. There may not be enough light to read a book, but there is more than enough to prevent me from walking into the shed or falling down the deck steps.
What makes the difference? Could it be that living in light makes the darkness seem like blindness until our eyes adjust? Could it be that the “dark nights” of our souls are actually less dark than we fear? Could it be that light really exists amid darkness?
We are living in times that can feel pretty dark. What light have you been noticing these days? You’ll discover there is enough.
Prayer:
O Maker of light, show us Your light in our darkness.
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