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I am writing this on the morning of January 4th and it is a typical January day in Michigan.  With the temperature in the low twenties and a light snow falling it really looks pretty outside.  Of course it is easier to say that when I’m setting inside where it is warm. 

There may be some bird tracks under the bird feeders that I can’t see, but otherwise there are no marks on the new fallen snow.  It is like a clean piece of paper waiting to be written on,  or like the new year laid out before us waiting to see what we will write on its blank pages.  We won’t be very many days into the new year when you get this newsletter.  What have you already written on the pages thus far?  Are they things that you would want others to know?  Would you gladly put them on facebook for all your friends to see?  We tend to forget as we rush through life that we are writing the story of our lives one day at a time without ever having to lift a pen.  We write it with the words we say and the things we do in indelible ink.  We may be able to cross out mistakes later and correct them in the margins or on a later page, but we can never erase them.

I hope that 2009 was a good year for you, for many people it wasn’t because of the economy and for personal reasons.  But I believe there is a promising future in the new year.  We can’t control the economy or the war or what congress does with health care but we can control what we do and how we react to what goes on around us.

We have a huge plus in our favor if our lives are in God’s hands.  He promised that he would never leave us nor forsake us.  That he will be with us to the end of the age.  What better help could we ask for in going through the new year than to have the companionship and guidance of the creator of this world! 

So I believe and pray that as you write the story of your life a day at a time in this new year that  the story will be one of faith, success, happiness and all the good things you look for in life.  Remember that the chances of that happening are better if you walk with God and let him guide you because he knows the way.

I see that the snow has stopped for now at least.  By tonight there will be tracks of rabbits, squirrels and possibly dogs and children out back.  By morning there will be tracks of raccoons and probably deer added to it. Time may add coyotes or foxes plus many birds.  What will be on the pages of your life?  ..Pastor Ray

FRIDAY, January 22, 2010
7:00 PM
Called Out Quartet