Wednesday's thoughts

How do we get it together?

Following up with the Mother's Day/Pentecost theme I am thinking of the factors that help us get it together and I begin with family, then I move to church, and finally I reach into the sense of the holy.

One of the guidelines that came to the delegates of General Conference was instruction from John Wesley.
He said, "Do no harm"
He said, "Do good."
And he said, "Stay in love with God".

I thought most of us were instructed to do no harm from our mothers. I thought the church was one of the places we are continually reminded to do good. The final sense of getting it together comes when we move in our lives to pattern of living that is in love with creation and the creator. It's an approach to life that allows us to trust the future. It's an means of addressing the days of our lives with the expectation and hope for something better to come and something new to experience.

We get it together when we strive to do no harm, to do good, and to stay in love with God.

At least this is how I'm seeing it on this Wednesday afternoon.

It's good to be back home.

If you have thoughts on this write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net

I look forward to hearing from you.


Charles