Hi, sorry we have not been active here post Christmas but as with many, family time is important and after many months when you might think we have had enough family time with our immediate family members there is a need to take time for a different pace, to be present to each other and not the to do lists we all have to get through. So we ate, walked, played games and read together. We stopped and celebrated Christ’s birth and looked ahead to that day when He will come again as King.
But just like those first signs of spring with bulbs popping through we are journeying back. We haven’t stop praying for you even while being quiet here.
I was struck reading a tribute this week to one of the two amazing caretakers at Regent College who died this Christmas season. Alan, swept, mopped, and kept the building a pleasant place to be. But God had not placed Alan in Regent to be a caretaker solely for the purpose of caring for the building. That was simply a means to an end for him to be a pastor to so many of us who walked that building. He prayed for us as he swept, he greeted us, he listened to God’s Holy Spirit to know when to speak into our lives, to carry in prayer the burdens he saw us weighed down by as we side stepped him and his brush. We sat in lectures, we got rich teaching which challenged us, undid what we thought we knew, left many of us with more questions than answers, there was rigorous assignments and papers all with the purpose of helping to shape and form us and prepare us to live as people of God. Alan pastored us through those not with sermons, not with Bible studies, not with teaching but through prayer, a smile, a conversation and a mop in hand.
It has left me wondering what would it look like for you to step away from the office for a day, to step away from the desk, the books, the phone and to clean the sanctuary and pray as you picture the faces of those who sit in the seats you go by? Maybe you would discover it would take longer than a day, but then also maybe come Sunday that wouldn’t matter because God will have been speaking all week into you through the lives of those you see in your minds eyes in those seats.
Praying for you to find joy in prayer and serving this year.
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