Dear CCPC Family,

Barbara Brown Taylor observes that the problem with miracles is that once you've witnessed one, you want one of your own! Not only that, we all know people who are suffering, people who could also use a miracle. But miracles are hard to come by. Not everyone who prays for one gets one. Some people get one without praying for one.

Go figure!

In these hard days of Lent, I am mindful of those within this family whose very being is more than a miracle. I am also mindful of others for whom prayers have seemed of no avail.

Go figure!

Increasingly, I am convinced that the real miracle is not whether someone gets better, is healed, is given the answer to his or her prayer, but that there is nowhere we can go that God's love in Jesus Christ does not go with us. There is no depth to which we can descend that the love of Christ cannot reach us. There is no earthly condition - - no sin, no sickness, no loneliness, no self imposed guilt that can prevent Jesus Christ from finding us and gathering us into His love.

You are... I am... we all are in His good hands!

Gracious God, not just for the persistence of Your love, but the steadfastness of Your love, we give You thanks. Chiefly, we thank You that there is a face to that love that we see most clearly in Jesus, Whose hands we entrust our lives.
Amen.

Donald Gordon Lewis, Jr.
Pastor

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