Dear Friends,
The days of summer are drawing to a close. Oh yes, mentally we can tell ourselves that we have three more weeks, but emotionally we know better.
Summer ends with Labour Day Weekend, the Air Show at the Ex, and the first day of school.
Now, as has been the case for the last six months, we know things are a little different this year. No Ex, no Air Show, and school openings have been delayed a week. We move into the fall, some with a bit of apprehension, some with more than a bit of stress with regard to the uncertainties of the future and most of us wishing the threat of Covid-19 was long behind us.
As we mourn the end of summer and as we anxiously anticipate returning to something that is not the norm as usual, we pass on to you this quote that a good friend sent to us this week:
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grains to give bread, broken bread to give strength.
Vance Havner, quoted by The Contemplative Monk
Revs. Bob and Helen Smith
This message first appeared in the September 3, 2020, edition of Tidbits.