Pastor Bruce’s blog

Fall’s here and finally, after a long and beautiful summer, we’ve got our clouds and cool weather back.  The seasons have changed, even though they changed on the calendar before this point.  I used to work outdoors in the tree care industry before my ministry days and I had a vested interest in those seasonal changes, much more than I do now.  I knew what was around the corner when the weather got cooler…

But now I’m more concerned with people changes.  And do people change!  Especially these days.  We’ve just sent the Zagata family to South Carolina for a new job situation, after John had searched for 2 and a half years for a job here in New York.  Honest?  I don’t like that kind of change.  The kind where people you love have to move away and move out of your everyday sphere.  It feels, well, kind of bittersweet. 

And yet the Lord has promised us all something.  He said in Romans 8.28 that He sees to it that “all things” work out for the good for believers, if we just simply hold out for His final say.  Have you lost someone?  Have you had people situations, situations themselves, change in some way that you don’t like?  The promise is this: He will work out (even) seeming losses so that in the end you’ll have to say, yes, that was good.  Can we trust Him?  Absolutely!  So place that change squarely in His lap and breathe a sigh of relief.  Change will be good.  PB

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