Something to think about: Psalm 36:5-9
This week, the church is full of children attending a Pedalheads bike camp. In a couple of weeks, we’ll be hosting our annual Summer Adventure Camp Making Waves with Jesus–both awesome ways of connecting with the youth in our community.
As we’ve been working in the office this week preparing for the Adventure Camp, we hear the dialogue of bike campers going down the hall. I have an Every Child Matters T-shirt hanging outside my office. There is also a God’s Love Includes Everyone label on my door. It’s who we are; but as they’ve been there for a while, I walk by them a lot.
This week, the hallways conversations changed that. Campers walked down the halls asking their leaders about every single thing on the bulletin boards. They were seeing things for the first time. When they passed my office, one camper read the T-shirt “Every Child Matters” to which their leader immediately replied, “They certainly do”.
Congrats to that leader for affirming the right words in the right place.
It made me wonder how often we are walking past good words or beautiful images because we’ve seen them there so often. How are we living those words, reading them aloud not just to ourselves, but to others so that they can see the message?
We changed the front of the church a bit two weeks ago (the picture is above). We wanted to use art to show a message of Jesus’ love over all creation. It’s a message that we all need to see and hear right now.
I know God has put a lot of good words and good things in our lives that sometimes we take for granted. New mornings. Joy. Jokes that let everyone laugh. Words of peace. Love that, in the words of the Psalm, reaches to the heavens. And yes, church bulletin boards and T-shirts that call us to renewed mission and sharing God’s love.
What words are around you today that need to be noticed and read aloud again? What do we need to see again for the first time?
Prayer: Open my eyes, Lord. there is so much of your goodness that you’ve put around me that sometimes I take it for granted. Let me see your messages more clearly, even if I’ve walked by them before. Amen.
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