05/30/2026
Dear ones, the days of our Summer for 2026 have been given to us as a gift of this weekend. Labor day is later than you would normally encounter it. What to do, what to do?
Synod Assembly opened last night, and continues today. Bishop Penman and Pr. Manson broke open the topic of last week's message in worship...."The Unfinished Church." While I think we do best by continually, growing and learning and really seeing our neighbor, Image Dei calls us to wonder what if.....
What if we saw every person we encountered as called and loved by God? What if we were honest about our humanness and the ways in which we struggle to see the faults of our beloved Church (big "C" meaning the denomination and beyond)?
What if we lay in a deck chair and watch the clouds. What if we stopped and Listened. Looked. Prayed. and Sought out God. Here is a starter idea. A start to listening differently, more fresher, and with vibrancy. The New York Times offers us ONE way to get off the hurdling train this summer. I haven't had a summer read for years. I think this year I will return. Ive already got 3 books on the pile....
"What is this stray weekend we find ourselves with between Memorial Day and June? A byproduct of this longest possible unofficial summer, a strange gift of a weekend between spring and the month in which summer officially begins. A perfect weekend, I think, for determining our reading plans for this summer......"
What is your idea for the summer??
