A Double Portion

This a rare thing. I'm writing minutes before I leave for worship at LSCC but when you have an idea, with my mind, I have to get it down or I'll forget it. I've just been through one of the most difficult weeks as a pastor. Last weekend, I performed a wedding ceremony for a wonderful new couple. They are high school sweet hearts, faithful followers of Jesus and are in Hawaii at this moment enjoying a honeymoon. What an honor to join them in marriage! Then we had Sunday service which was another blessing. The scriptures focused us in on prayer so we spent a good 30 minutes at the end praying together as a body. THEN, things got tough as we went from church to Brian Remmel's calling. His funeral service was on Monday. He is with the Lord and has no worries at all but his loss here is felt hard by his wife and two kids.

If it seemed like God's grace was in short supply last week, you can blame me. I know I had a double portion of it, as God guided me through this last week. A long weekend of high's and low's. A long week of trying to find the emotional energy to share what I'm about to share in a few minutes. Thank you for praying for me, I know God poured out His grace to me and even is about to do it again. The reality of it, there is an ocean of His grace that we can swim around in but sometimes we don't have the strength to dive in, so we rely on others to pray us into the ocean. There's more than enough to go around, even when I take double my dose in a week. Pray for the Remmel's to experience that grace today. Their week, feeling Brian's absence, was exponentially more difficult than mine. Go swimming yourself, there's plenty of water in the ocean. We can't do a thing that matters without getting wet! Blessings, Pastor Greg