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A Time Like No Other

April 09, 2020 10:50 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

Beloved Community,

We have just experienced most of Lent, and all of Holy Week and Easter in social isolation. Nothing we have experienced in these last weeks has been ordinary. People of faith all around the world have been kept apart, have been kept from gathering to worship because of an invisible virus.

We have done our best to provide virtual worship and thankfully, with Zoom technology, we have been able to “see” one another on our computer screens or other devices. If you are like me, you have experienced a range of emotions during our time apart, days of feeling down and wondering if this time of isolation will ever end, days of hope as the vivid colors of spring burst all around us and birds return and nest in our yards.

As Christians, we are taught that we are an “Easter People.” That means that we live in hope each day knowing that Christ defeated death and lives again. Christ lives in each one of us and although many of us may not be feeling like we have experienced Easter yet and are still living in Holy Week, Christ IS alive and one day will once again gather together and sing the glorious hymns of Eastertide.

The psalm appointed for today is a portion of Psalm 16. The words of the psalmist are encouraging to me and give me hope:

Psalm 16:8-11

I have set you always before me; because you are at my right hand I shall not fall.
My heart, therefore, is glad and my spirit rejoices; my body also shall rest in hope.
For you will not abandon me to the grave, nor let your holy one see the Pit.
You will show me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy, and in your right hand are pleasures for evermore.
(St. Helena Psalter)

The psalm declares our faith in God, who is always with us even when we do not feel God’s presence. My prayer for all of us is that in this time that is like no other, we will lean evermore on the everlasting arms of Christ, trusting that he will show us the path of life and we will know that in his presence there is fullness of joy.

Faithfully yours in Christ,



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