Dear Friends,
It sits in a clearing on the edge of the wood, weathered and grey, dead, a stump of a log. Yet from the heart of its rings comes a bouquet of green leaves. Life emerges out of death. The regeneration of creation is surely one of God’s miracles. Remember God’s words through his prophet, Isaiah? “I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” (Isaiah 43:19)
As we move out of lockdown, what will the new life be like? May we see again God’s creative power making all things new.
Thanks be to God.
In Christ,
Revs. Bob and Helen Smith
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A version of this message first appeared in the Saturday, July 17, 2021, edition of Tidbits.