You don't need me to tell you that summer is here.  Just looking at the grass around the area reminds us the rainfall is slowing down.  You can also notice the numbers on the average high temperature going up.  One sure way to recognize summer would be to watch the huge smiles on kids who are out of school until August.  We now head into our annual test of endurance.  You may also see a few less posts here on the blog for a bit.  Time may be short in terms of writing.  I will keep at the effort but do not be terribly surprised if more than a few days pass between putting stuff on here.  Seems like the least one can do is to let you know.


All of England in preparing for the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's reign.  She is celebrating sixty years as the head of the British monarchy.  No doubt that being king or queen is still pretty good work but it is not the same as it was centuries ago.  At one point, the head of the royal family really did retain a great deal of power.  Most of what they do today is ceremonial without much real effect on running the government.  You still have all of the pomp and circumstance but you don't have any real importance other than that.  It should still be quite the affair with all kinds of celebrations planned.  Everyone loves a reason to throw a party.


Some people treat God much the same way as they would British royalty.  He is impressive but is not given much room to really make a difference.  We believe in God but sometimes our heart is slow to trust Him.  Our tendency is toward making our life easy to manage.  Even our spiritual habits aim for avoiding messy places in our journey.  Perhaps we just are not convinced that God would not do the unusual to nudge us to a greater faith.  One obvious problem with such an approach is that we may not know how to allow God freedom to work when we do need Him.  Someone once said believers tend to have two different Gods.  We have the God of church that we talk about being big and strong.  Then we have another God who is really the one we trust.  That God is smaller and needs our help in keeping life under control.  No wonder we live an anemic faith much too often.


God reveals Himself in terms of glory, strength, might and power.  He is the source of all creation. God works in amazing ways to bring about His will.  God will send His son into the world to display authentic power through the needs of people.  His church begins its mission in the world with wonders that amaze those who see them.  So why is it we tend to wring our hands in worry over the small stuff?  Maybe it is not a matter of our crisis being too big but of our God being too small?  One can only hope we regain our confidence in God during these days.  That is the path to thriving in any condition by faith.


Bro. Trey