Summer Time

                       
It is great to have fun.  For some folks having fun is great work.  Organizing all the aspects of the food, the tables, the details can be a bit of a task.  I hear often that we want to make sure we get everything covered and that everything works.  We trust this is true and we strive hard to make this happen.
  

Still, whatever takes place in the perfect completion of hard sought plans, or intermittent mishaps that cause concern and turmoil for a time, each event happens with joy and celebration!

I can’t help but think back to an interview I heard with an Olympic athlete last night on the television  where the question was posed to the athlete something like this:  You worked hard and you were just a heartbeat from getting the gold medal in your event you must be devastated.  To which the athlete just joyously replied - I was just so thankful to be able to compete in these games, and to have a medal is such an honor and a joy.

This is it, isn’t it?  We strive to do great things and make everything work to the best of our abilities!  Still, it comes down to the same thing over and over again:  it is great that we have this day, this party, picnic, or barbeque.  It is great that we have this moment to be who we are where we are as we are.  Celebrating this together is the joy we have through our faith in Jesus Christ.  “God made us as we are;” we are sheep of God’s pasture says the writer of my favorite psalm.

This is our goal to “make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth!!!”  We come as we were made, as ourselves, to joyfully share together: 

“For the Lord is good;

God’s steadfast love endures for ever,

and God’s faithfulness to all generations.” 

We are here as we are, where we are, who we are, forever!!!

“Give Thanks to God, Bless God’s Holy Name!” Psalm 100