Ever consider yourself essential? How often did you use or hear the word essential? Or, how often did you consider the essential things in your life? What are your essentials? Probably haven’t given it much thought, right? That has all changed! Back on March 28 our Governor Ron DeSantis joined other governors closing down many businesses, restaurants, schools, sporting events, nail, hair salons, and many public places. Things that many of us thought were essential!
Read MoreWe are now two months into this COVID-19 pandemic. As of this morning, over 280,000 people have died from this virus worldwide, over 79,000 in the United States, over 1,700 in Florida, 33 in Polk County and one of those, Bill Smith, in our church family.
Jesus told his disciples, “Do not let your hearts be troubled.”
Read MoreThe question keeps coming, when are we going to get back to normal, or at least some form of it? Even asking that question raises other questions.
We might have to wear masks for a while. We might have to spread out a bit for a while. We might have communion with just the bread for a while. We might not have social hour for a while.
As we think about what we’ve had to modify, what we’ve had to set aside and what we might have to wait to resume, we ought to take stock in what is truly important. Our readings remind us in a big way.
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