What are we all doing here?
May 28, 2025
Welcome! It has been a long time since I have had a blog, but because we are moving forward together, communication is so important! I am going to refer to myself as your “new pastor” for at least a year because I figure that’s how long I can get away with it. 🙂 And as such, welcome to this new feature on our website as a community, where I’ll post extra interesting things from our worship service together – such as a prayer you may have requested, or a reference. I will also communicate about upcoming events or other important items so that we are all on the same page.
What are we all doing here anyway? I sit in my home office this morning, on the second floor of our house where I’m able to look down upon my beautiful backyard. We have worked so hard on it, and it still has so far to come, but it is beautiful and I am able to watch the birds, an occasional squirrel, and even a duck or two at the right time of year. Woodpeckers are common as I’m at tree height and catch a flicker of those little red feathers as they fly toward a tree in the greenspace behind us.
On Sunday I quoted Jesus when he instructs us not to worry:
Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? (Matthew 5:25-26, NRSV)
Sometimes I look outside at all of these beautiful things and wonder why I spend a moment of my life with anxiety or worry.
We were created to have a relationship with our Maker, our Creator. Just as God sustains the tiniest of birds or the peskiest of woodpeckers, God sustains us. In Christ, all things hold together (Colossians 1:17). This encourages me when I’m not feeling well, when I’m anxious, and even when I am filled with fear.
Take time for yourself this week to enjoy this gorgeous weather, breathing in God’s peace and rest and letting any anxieties go. I am praying for you.
– Pastor Rachel
