I seem to be spending a lot of time lately in the dark reflecting……… eating taco chips that I should leave in the pantry - and that one glass of wine that will prevent me from sleeping all night …. But,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Transitions are not just at the shore of water and earth - they are also at wine and bread - (chew on that one for awhile!!) and at that point in conversation between concrete reality and free imagination……………commonly known as thinking outside the box…..
What does God want us to do?
and more importantly - how does God want us to do it?
because we must?
because we can?
because we care able?
because no one else will?

NO - because we love ----- and because God in Christ Jesus loves us. period end of conversation.
Even as I write these words - I understand the enormity of them - LOVE - who me?? why me? let the next guy do it , I‘m busy…………….

My congregation is struggling with the question “who and what will we be when we ‘grow up’?? and in all fairness - I struggle with this question as well. I guess the 1^{st ( and most important )} question is - ‘what grow up, why do I want to do that!!’

But as Christians - that is what we are called to do - grow up not so much as adults as we think of it in this 21st century - but growing in the faith - maturing in the name of Jesus……………………………….......................

we may feel like we are all still in preschool - but the reality is that we are not. Middle school maybe - college- no. but we are still in school nevertheless.

And will be until that day when we see God face to face -

And all God’s children say ……………AMEN