03.17.09
On finding refuge…
Dear Friends:
Spring is in the air! Here at the NHUMC Garden Center, I’m celebrating a new arrival…a bird house. It’s part of inviting birds to come in and find refuge, some bird seed, and peace. Along with it, they’ll enjoy the beauty of a flower garden that is soon to be.
To be inviting and encouraging is certainly a part of the Christian’s agenda. To offer a place where one finds one’s needs met…physically, socially, and spiritually, ah yes, the Christian Church. That place can be a building like NHUMC or it might be a person (after all, Paul challenges the early Christians to be a “temple of God”). How does that work for you? Someone once asked, “Does the room light up when you enter or when you leave?” How does your hospitality grow? Are you helping others to find their needs being met, or are you creating more needs for them to meet?
I encourage you to be inviting, even as I invite you to Normandale Hylands UMC. I encourage you by your example and witness to be an invitation to the refuge and peace that comes in knowing Jesus Christ as the Lord of your life. Blessings to you.
Feel free to drop in. The coffee’s fresh, the lights are on, and the hospitality is grand.
Your friend, Pastor Don
