Share where the Holy Spirit has been at work this week.
Jan – I had such a revelation to me on the portion of scripture, Matthew 13: 44, where it talks about the pearl of great price that is found in the field. Well, looking at it in commentary, I was overcome with a realization that the commentator said that the field could mean the Old Testament; the pearl of great price, Jesus, as he is. I have been going through the Old Testament and then Pastor Brett asked me to read a portion from the Old Testament today, and low and behold it all reflects Him. We plead for Him to come; we have a nativity & our Advent Candles and everything, anticipating His coming. And He has come! It is so awesome to contemplate that. And He’s coming again! I was so excited about that! One more fast thing about what He did for me this week – I have a new cell phone, well any of you that have had a new cell phone with all its bells & whistles know how complicated it can be. They apparently put me up to a new level…you can’t even get on the phone, unless you have this special password, it won’t do anything…it’s just dead. My son & his daughter had given me umpteen different passwords….we had to change everything because of this hacking of my email…I had no idea what the password I was supposed to use was… I tried everything under the sun and nothing worked. So, I just put it down and I said – Well, Lord, if you want me to be able to use this thing, you are going to have to tell me what the password is. Low & behold when I tried to do it one more time using the password I used with my old cell phone carrier (I haven’t had this carrier forever…) and it worked! It was the password for my old carrier! So, I put that password in and the thing came to life again! It’s amazing!
Pastor Brett – One of mine: Yesterday, a couple of us assembled in the Lighthouse to put together some of the Advent Stations we’re working on. The art that I had ordered, was supposed to come on Friday so that we could put it up on Saturday. Well, who knows what happened but, UPS did not deliver the art on Friday. So, I was very worried as we got together yesterday that the art was going to be delayed. We worked from 10 – 12 on the set up there. Sandy & I were lingering around a little bit after the work party. I came out of the main building and the UPS truck pulled up into the church parking lot! And what did they bring out? The box of art we were waiting for! So, I was very happy that we got the art for the Lighthouse Building; I was able to put some of it up last night and have a couple more pieces to put up this week. That was definitely a moment where Sandy & I looked at each other and said – Whoa, look at the timing of that! No one would have been here on Saturday if we hadn’t done this. So, that was my God Sighting yesterday.
Sally – (This is not a God Sighting, just a great thing we did on Thanksgiving) We have always done this Turkey Trot with people in the neighborhood, but there wasn’t going to be one put on this year. So, we put on our own Turkey Trot at our house and none other than Pastor Brian Shimer, Gabri, Grace, Julie & Jaime and 3 other people came. So, we had 9 people and we ran our own Turkey Trot. We had bibs and colored them in; I had prizes. It was all outside – we registered people in our garage and never came in the house. Everyone thought it was the best way to start Thanksgiving in these times. So, it was really fun.
Merry – Many hands made light the work at our Thanksgiving distribution, bigger than ever, 116 families.
Michele – My God Sighting would be that on Thanksgiving because everything being so different, for Thanksgiving dinner, my sister in Michigan & her husband and I Facetimed through dinner. And it was so cool…I was sitting there watching my sister eat her salad and food; we were talking. It was just…it made it good. So, that was a big blessing to feel so close to the family in such difficult times.