Welcome to this special edition of the blog. Ok, so it may not be that special to anyone but me however this is post 200! It took a very long time to get here but allow me a moment to celebrate. I'm done. The other night I took some time to review almost every piece of writing here. Some of what is here is repetitive I know. Some of what is written here really is not particularly deep. What I found is a slice of history over the last couple of years. There are posts that relate great times among the congregation. There are also posts that reflect the deep struggles at a given point. Perhaps on rare occasion there was something written here that touched a chord with whoever stumbles across this site. It was also obvious that there are more than a few gaps along the way when it comes to being a disciplined writer. That is no one's fault but mine. It has been a long few years of ministry here. Someday I may have the courage to tell some of the "untold" stories of what truly happened in those moments.

It was my intent to blog something last night. However, we lost power across the area for awhile. My youngest does not like it at all when that happens. Perhaps it is because we normally lose power when there are storms or even hurricanes. He equates a loss of power with bad weather. Last night, the weather was about perfect for June 2. Still the power went out in the late afternoon just following my 3 mile run/walk. I showered in the candlelit bathroom so we could go north awhile waiting for the lights to be restored. We ate at a new place for us. The pizza was really good. Then me and my son played some pool afterwards. Do not look for either of us on ESPN during a pool tournament. Thankfully, when we arrived home the power was back on so life went on as normal.

Guess what? I'm writing from the office since the power is again off at home. We just had one of those late spring thunderboomer storms pass over. It sounded to me like lightening went right across the bow of the house. The odd thing is there was so much static that one of my son's battery operated toys turned on. So again there was a call to the power company to report an outage. It looks like they need to be on my speed dial. The weather didn't affect the school so he is safe and sound. Let's hope all is back to normal when he returns home in an hour. If we still have no power then its another candlelit shower followed by a haircut. Trust me, you do not want to be around him when the electricity is off.

There are tons of analogies or allegories to be made about the loss of power. We talk a lot about the power of God in our life. We do believe that God Himself offers the follower of Jesus real power to deal with whatever comes along in our journey. Sometimes we lose power because of the storms. They just overwhelm us with stress until we become weak. Just remember that Paul wrote that God's power is made stronger in our weakness (2 Cor. 12). Sometimes we lose power because of what others do. That happened last night to our power grid. We were innocent bystanders when the system crashed. Yet we still have to adjust to the outage. Sometimes things get broken and we lose power. The repairman is out now looking at our transformer as well as other fuses along the line. There is plenty of power out there now but it is not getting to the house. He has to repair what is broken.

All of that is to say we have many ways to lose power as we move along. But there is only one way to regain the energy of life. You call the source to report the outage as well as your need to have it restored. Isaiah wrote that if we do that then we can again mount up with wings as eagles. I am waiting on the electricity to be repaired. Do we need to wait on God to restore us in the same way?

Bro. Trey