The weather is changing. I’m sure I don’t need to remind you of that insight. For the last several weeks most people, including myself have awakened each day not sure what to expect when it comes to the weather. One day it’s 85 degrees, sun brightly shining without a cloud in the sky. A couple of day’s later jackets become mandatory as we drive through a morning snow shower. Rain and 45 degrees one day intersects with 75 degrees and dry the next. Pollen begins to fall, and sneezing becomes a routine. Wind at times has been refreshing but other times destructive and deadly. Rain has refreshed us as it gently falls to the ground followed by torrential downpours where you can’t see 20 feet in front of you. The weather is changing.

As much as we may notice this severe change of weather, the fact is each and every day of our life has encounters with change. Even our routines, as rigid and scheduled as they might be; can encounter many different twists and turns. We don’t know as we awaken each day what we may encounter or might engage us. That is life. And if this is life, then the faith we profess and indicate has importance to us; must adapt or help us move through these changes that occur.

During this spring season as life and creation continues to change around us, isn’t it our responsibility to allow our faith to engage us in the potential changes of life. Faith is not a stagnant, dormant entity that waits around, or tucked away for safe keeping. Faith doesn’t come to our rescue when needs arise or issues are to be settled. Just as the weather changes and we need to prepare, adapt, plan, adjust, rework to live in that change, our faith engages our life so we can prepare, adapt, plan, adjust, and rework in order to find meaning and purpose.

Faith is a living faith, and in that living faith, we must approach each day knowing that
changes will be occurring. May the Spirit of God continue to move and motivate you as you face the many changes that will take place in your life during this spring season, a season where growth and new life occur in all of God’s Creation.

Pastor Zimmerman