Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

Thoughts While Running

2/1/2005
By: Holy Trinity Lutheran

Wow, what a lot of rain! As I sit to write this, the sun is finally shining. Those who have been evacuated are beginning to return to their homes, and people in La Conchita are mourning and still looking for loved ones. What a mixture of feelings. We need the rain, but Lord this is way too much.

I have a running friend in Arizona, who each morning would comment, and it inevitably was either too hot or too cold. It just seemed that nature could never get it right. While I think he was partly joking I have a feeling that many others are serious about a kind of discontent that occurs when it comes to God.

We are in the season of Epiphany and we are thinking about how God is seen in Jesus, in our world. Soon, very soon, February 9th, Ash Wednesday will be upon us and we will be once more reminded that we are simply dust in God’s hands, the very work of God’s creation, which ought to humble us.

As we move through Lent, we will be reminded of the costly nature of Jesus’ time on earth, and that ought to humble us. Do you see a pattern here? God is God and we are not. When we come to realize this fact about God and that the costly death of Jesus on a cross was for us, the race, love and mercy that comes from that is for us we should bow our hearts, heads and souls in humility and come before God to worship and sing God’s praise.

I invite you to join me in doing that throughout Lent, right into Easter.

Pastor Frank Nausin