The Christmas season is over and winter has finally settled in. It is a bitter cold day, but the sun is shining and it is actually very beautiful. I love watching the finches come in to our bird feeder. They must keep themselves warm by flying back and forth. They certainly get their exercise.
Exercise is something we are all supposed to get after eating too many goodies over the holidays. I may not go to the gym, but I get a lot of exercise running up and down from the manse to the church and back. Sometimes I feel like those finches zipping back and forth from meeting to meeting. January is a very busy month in the life of the church. In many ways it feels busier than December. At least it is a different kind of busy. There are committee and session meetings, planning for upcoming events, and preparing for the annual meeting.
Those finches are a good lesson in what we need to do when we are busy. We need to keep coming back to the feeder. Our feeder is the spiritual home we find in our church, in Scripture, in prayer and in nature. Those are places where we encounter God's spirit and we can be renewed for our busy lives.
So stay warm, but bundle up and take a walk on a bright winter day, read a Psalm, or just be still for a moment. You'll find your time at the feeder will get you through whatever you need to do today.
See you at the feeder (our church)
Pastor Dale
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