Messages from the Choir Loft

Messages from the Choir Loft

Being in the choir loft every Sunday gives you a new and different perspective of the congregation. From week to week the congregation grows and lessens and moves around the pews like the breathing of a living being. Right now our spiritual congregational being is in the ER and the doctor has the defibrillator paddles in his hands yelling "clear!"

A new infusion of energy is being presented to us. And yes, some of us don't like this new energy. It's different. It's new. And it causes us to question everything and see our spiritual church life in a new way.

Our church is in the midst of change just as it will reach its 150th birthday next year. the older a church gets, the more resistant it is to change. The older a church gets, the more apt the "regulars" look back to the good old days. Let us just remember that the good old days had bad days as well, just like today. Our bad days have just taken a different form.

I long for the day when our living congregation breathes that sudden intake if breath where the doctor states, "she's gonna be just fine."

Let's keep our faith, keep ourselves on a God directed path and maybe one day not too far from now we will realize we had to weather our storms in order to grow and discover our own true legacy.

Blessings.