We're just about half way through our wilderness time: like Jesus after the first temptation, without bread to eat and yet getting ready for the second temptation to take the world's version of power ; or like the Israelites who had received manna in the wilderness but still weren't convinced Moses knew where they were going; or Noah and his family who had a boatload of animals but no land in sight. The middle of the wilderness is a scary place to be. It is tempting to bail out of the journey at that point because it is difficult to see the end.
And yet this is the time when the Holy Spirit, freed of all the constaints we impose, is free to act. It is the time when we are free to think outside the box, because we've lost track of the edges of the box. It's a time to move forward because it's just too far to go back. Our mission committee met to figure out how we going to raise $2,000 for our part of the Habitat for Humanity Build and decided to have a "Palm Sunday Cake Auction" to raise a significant portion of the mission money. It is a time when the "Faith Connection" met on Sunday night without the usual commitment of young people from First Presbyterian or Westwood or Covenant and yet we had a wonderful Spirit filled worship service with college students from Russia, Tanzania, Uganda, and all around the world. Palm Sunday is three weeks away and yet the next two weeks will be a time to celebrate a grant from Self Development of People to Sunflower Action Community and a time to receive three new members, Susan, Kevin and Danielle as brothers and sisters at Covenant.
There's no going back but the adventure in faith is always before us. Blessings on the journey as the Spirit that drove us into the wilderness continue to guide us, inspire us and revive us to journey on.
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