Good morning! Or maybe it’s, Good Day! Or even, Good Night! Maybe the sun is just rising or stands high in the sky. Maybe the moon and stars have begun to shine overhead. Or perhaps you’re up in the middle of the night and caught a glimpse of something amazing in the night sky. Regardless of when you read this reflection, I hope that you know the grace of God shining through today. “Through” as in permeating into your heart and mind, and “through” as in being reflected out in the things you say and do.
I’m starting this blog as a means of consolidating and communicating reflections from Sunday, the Lord’s Day. I have the privilege of sitting in a place where I get to see so many of the ways God’s work among us shines with such brilliance. I’ve long wished that there were a way for more of you to be able to see the way the light of Christ is shining around here - and out there. But there hasn’t been a quick way to share these insights, until now. Enter: the blog.
Some days I might share a reflection from Sunday’s worship: an awesome sight, a moment from a song, an amazing thing that my colleague preachers shared, part of a reading, or a wonderful thing that happened at Sunday School. Some days I might comment on something I read or saw or heard about. Often there will be a phrase from one of the week’s texts and a brief prayer. And usually, it will be shorter than this!
Text: Psalm 112:4 – “Light shines in the darkness for the upright; the righteous are merciful and full of compassion.”
Prayer: O God, the light of your love constantly shines into our lives, and some days your brilliance surprises us and takes our breath away. Use us to today to reflect the light of your mercy and compassion to someone else. Send us to shine for you, and open our eyes to behold your presence in someone else, for the sake of the world. Amen.
--Pastor Dee Pederson
I’m starting this blog as a means of consolidating and communicating reflections from Sunday, the Lord’s Day. I have the privilege of sitting in a place where I get to see so many of the ways God’s work among us shines with such brilliance. I’ve long wished that there were a way for more of you to be able to see the way the light of Christ is shining around here - and out there. But there hasn’t been a quick way to share these insights, until now. Enter: the blog.
Some days I might share a reflection from Sunday’s worship: an awesome sight, a moment from a song, an amazing thing that my colleague preachers shared, part of a reading, or a wonderful thing that happened at Sunday School. Some days I might comment on something I read or saw or heard about. Often there will be a phrase from one of the week’s texts and a brief prayer. And usually, it will be shorter than this!
Text: Psalm 112:4 – “Light shines in the darkness for the upright; the righteous are merciful and full of compassion.”
Prayer: O God, the light of your love constantly shines into our lives, and some days your brilliance surprises us and takes our breath away. Use us to today to reflect the light of your mercy and compassion to someone else. Send us to shine for you, and open our eyes to behold your presence in someone else, for the sake of the world. Amen.
--Pastor Dee Pederson
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