And…I’m looking forward to our return to Sunday morning gatherings. I’ve very much enjoyed our relaxed and engaged Wednesday evenings, but I also know there are folks that have been waiting for the schedule to change so they can join us again.

On one of the lovely evenings this past week, I was walking at Birds Hill Park with a friend that loves to probe the “big questions”. We got into it! It was a delightful and energizing conversation, and I thought my insights were mostly pretty good – until I started to try to articulate the size of the gap between humanity and deity. I won’t trouble you with why that mattered in the discussion – suffice it to say that I ran out of wisdom and words at about the same time.

I had our little dog Meika with me, and all of a sudden the thought struck me that whatever the difference is between God and humanity, its a far more pronounced difference than the one that exists between that little pooch and me. And yet, we seem to be both drawn to and welcomed to explore that gap and to see how it might be reduced or even drawn toward closure.

This week we’ll be doing that exploring through catch-up conversations, the sharing of our lives in community time, our prayers for one another, and through the parable of the Unforgiving Servant.

Just in case you’ve forgotten, we meet at 10:30 a.m. at 493 Notre Dame. I’m looking forward to being with you all!

Peace,

Tim Plett