Kind Of Strange

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I am writing this from home, sitting at my laptop, in the early afternoon. Like pretty much everyone else in Oklahoma City, I am iced in. The big storm dumped a sheet of ice on the roads and is now covering that with a thick layer of snow. On Monday, the temperature was in the 60's--now we are locked in an ice box. Nature/weather is never boring.

One of the bad things about being stuck at home is that I can't get the church work done that is supposed to be done on Thursday. At the office, we have a schedule. On Thursday, we run and fold the bulletin and get the slides on the computer in the balcony. I guess that will happen either on Friday or Saturday.

I don't know if anyone who has read this blog has noticed, but the page has evolved. It started out with a black background and is now light. The reason for the change is that I have gotten feedback from friends that make suggestions about how to improve the blog. Some refer to aesthetic issues--how the page looks and how easy it is to read. Others relate to security issues--if you want to post a comment, you have to read a weird word and type it in the box (to keep computer generated spam from being loaded into the blog). Also, any comments will come to my e-mail address and I will have to approve them before they can be posted.

The small changes remind me of the way we do ministry at Ridgecrest. We pray and ask God what to do. Once we feel that God has pointed us in a specific way, we take off. But, we don't always get where we want to go without making course corrections. It is like sailing a ship. You don't actually sail directly for a destination. Instead, you tack; you head in the general direction you want to go, then change course to correct you line. You wind up traveling in a zig zag pattern that gets you where you need to be. As we do ministry, we make small corrections as we go along, to help make sure we are on track. We are not afraid of change--we embrace it as necessary to fulfilling our God given mission: To Make Disciples for Christ!