For Such A Time as This June 2, 2020– Ferne Steckman

To the Good Folk of the Palmyra Church of the Brethren,

Help us celebrate Father’s Day!

We are putting together a Father’s Day slide show similar to but slightly different than our Mother’s Day tribute, as part of our virtual service.  You can help by sending us a:

• Video--Take a short video of yourself sharing a brief (one or two lines) memory or message about someone important to you.
• Photo--Send a photo of someone to add to the slide show (current or past photo)

Email or text your drawing or photo to Rachel at rwitkovsky@palmyracob.org by noon on Friday, June 1

Chalk the Lot!

Missing the ritual of coming to the church building to worship? Us too! You are invited to come to the church lot anytime to leave a message of love, hope, and positivity anywhere in our parking lot! And then walk around and see what others have left and spend a few moments in prayer for our church community. 

If you have chalk, feel free to bring your own! Otherwise, there are baggies of chalk in a container by the back door. Once used, please keep it as your own and bring it with you if you come back. 

Please remember that we are practicing social distancing. If others are in the lot, respect their space by keeping at least 6ft distance. Masks are requested as well. 

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 Bill.  If you would like it included in our Sunday Worship sharing and prayer time, please share it with Bill that week by Friday morning.

Pray for

• Carol Hoke
• Linda Whitman

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 Ferne Steckman for providing today’s devotion.  If you wish to respond to Ferne directly, her email address is missgreenplant@yahoo.com.

Shalom, Dennis

Scripture – Ephesians 2:19 (KJV)

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.

Thoughts

I am feeling restless.  When first ordered to stay in place I did great. I cleaned my apartment from corner to corner.  I put together a very difficult puzzle. I called friends and relatives to make sure we all stayed connected – But time marched on.  The items I had decided to discard while cleaning, languished in the corners with no place to go.  I needed my table and could not start another puzzle and I had spent months on phone conversations.  These conversations cheered up the receivers and I was glad to make the calls, BUT still I eventually felt lonesome.

Lonesome means: “dejected because of lack of companionship.”

I wanted human connection – face to face. Companionship!

When I went to my Bible to look up companionship it had quite a bit to say on the subject.  I liked the verse from Ephesians best.  We all belong to the household of god.  I need only to lift my eyes and pray.  I will admit my prayers had become a bit desperate in the last week or so.  Now I saw that I need to be calm, rest assured that others were in the same condition as I found myself.  I need to practice patience and do what I can to help others and offer what conciliation I can. We will weather this storm.  I still miss my church community, singing, sitting in the pews together and sharing that cup of coffee during fellowship.  I miss seeing Dennis and Bill as they go around before church greeting folks.

This too shall pass, if I can only be calm and practice patience.

Prayer 

O Christ, the healer, we have come

To pray for health, to plead for friends.

How can we fail to be restored,

When reached by love that never ends?

Amen.

 

From the hymn – O Christ, the Healer