If you've been wondering why I haven't posted a blog this week yet, wonder no longer: I've been swamped with lots of stuff - all good stuff, but lots of it!
I've been determining my priorities "on the fly" most of the week, and the two worship services this Sunday, prepping for our summer youth trips, and prepping for our Guatemala mission trip have most often been receiving my attention. Other time has been spent trying to swim to the surface and get my head back above water. The irony of this "busyness" is that Brueggemann's second chapter is titled "Resisting Anxiety." Sometimes I wonder if God is laughing at me. I take comfort in knowing that I can't possibly be the only person that feels this way. I will be reviewing chapter 2 of Brueggemann's book this evening or tomorrow, and invite you to do the same prior to our discussion Sunday morning. Also, here's a primer for our discussion on this chapter through the Good Reads website. I also encourage you to review the suggested activity at the end of Chapter 1 in the study guide so we can discuss this first on Sunday morning. I will be doing the same. Finally, might we all discover grace for one another, and for ourselves, in the midst of "crazy" anxious times, remembering that our identities are not so much in what we can do as they are in whose we are: "God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God--not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life." (Ephesians 2:4-10). Thanks be to God! I look forward to seeing you Sunday, and/or interacting with you here in the blogosphere. ~Pastor Keith
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