Jordan Stones...Blessings at the Gate of the New Year
Beloveds, welcome into a fresh turn of digits and a fresh trip around the sun as 2024 opens its unwritten pages for us to live out. I have shared with many of you that, personally, I am starting 2024 out with a limp . I have a meniscus tear that is not healing and it will be patched up in surgery on January 9th. I was thinking how sometimes God gets his best work done when we are wrestling to be OK, when we are in unsure places, when we limp. When Jacob wrestled for his blessing from God and ended up with a new name, Israel, the father of the 12 tribes of Israel…from where Jesus came to us. I would say that was worth the wrestle in the night. (Genesis 32: 22-32) As we poise ourselves toward whatever we hope for in the new year, the l yrics of a song we sing at church often comes to my mind: “ Whatever picture I have isn’t big enough; Whatever picture I have isn’t good enough; Whatever picture I have doesn’t sum you up; Couldn’t sum you up”. If you are like me, limp and all