Share from your week; where have you seen God at work?:
Pastor Brett – Some background on why we do God Sightings. If you remember on Easter, Mary Magdalene shows up at the tomb and she runs back and tells the disciples, the men, “I’ve seen The Lord!” This was her God Sighting. So, what we are doing when we share our God Sightings is we are witnessing to ways that we’ve seen God at work in the hopes of encouraging one another to look for God during our weeks.
I was able to go on a walk with Brian Shimer this week. He came over to my neighborhood, we took Levi out in the stroller for an hour or so. Almost immediately, you probably know Brian better than I do, we were laughing down the street. And people are working in their yards. This woman, who I think is a grandma to two small children and helps take care of them so her daughter can work, she was out doing some yardwork with the kids. We were just walking down the street pushing the stroller and laughing; Brian was howling at something I said. She says – Wow, it is so good to hear laughter. She looks right at Brian and says - You just made my day! So, it was just a powerful moment in a world where we’re trying to be cautious & safe and we aren’t trying to spread anything – that laughter & joy are more contagious than any virus ever could be. That was a really encouraging moment for me.
Michele – Well I think something is happening with me is in the condominium complex that I’ve lived in… I’ve been here since 2012 and it’s really sad the names of how few of the people I know. I’ve made it a goal to try and learn the names of different people around here and remember them – there’s the key remembering them! It’s really interesting that I’ve walked by these people a number of times and they maybe commented on my dogs. This week four different people I really stopped and talked. I said – By the way my name is Michele, what is your name? They are surprised, you know, and then the key is for me remembering the names; I’ll work on that. That would be my God Sighting, because people get big smiles on their face and it means something to them. They are like me, they’ve been here, one lady has lived here for nine years and I finally got her name. So, that’s my God Sighting and it makes people happy.
Susan D. – Our God Sighting was that our entire adult family got our first Covid-19 shots this week! Yes!!! There’s a future ahead!
Bonnie – I just want to thank everyone for the prayers. I put my son in law, Ray, on the prayer team this week. He was in the hospital for four days. He has another massive infection in his foot that has been going on for about four years now. They thought they may have to remove some toes, but at this point they don’t. He was able to go home on Thursday with a picc line in & massive antibiotics going through his body to kill this whole infection. So, thank you everyone for the prayers! I totally believe in prayer!
Martha – This is my God Sighting right here, this is Ada Marie Tunall; she is 4 ½ years old. She’s going to help me with the Children’s Sermon today.
Kari – Joe was able to get his first vaccination this last week so, that was a huge God Sighting right there. And we had great time at the beach last weekend; just amazing with the ocean and all the shells. We went on a hike the other day and we saw five or six different wildflowers starting to peek out this spring. Just being out in nature was great. It’s also been nice to see that more people are not wearing their masks when outside, which to me is a good thing to get some fresh air and be exposed to some good sunshine; good air and seeing people’s smiles is amazing.