{"id":5774,"date":"2024-04-30T16:38:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/?p=5774"},"modified":"2025-01-18T11:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T17:11:31","slug":"ponderings-from-pastor-patti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/2024\/04\/30\/ponderings-from-pastor-patti\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponderings from Pastor Patti – May 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Happy Spring<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>As Spring is springing, let us ponder on this verse:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:\u00a0 The old has gone, the new is here!\u201d <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(2 Corinthians 5:17)<\/p>\n

Sometimes it is so hard to think about change, and yet we gaze out our windows and walk around outside, giving thanks for yet another longed-for change in our lives.\u00a0 This change in temperatures, this change in season\u2026It\u2019s a good change, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Cabin fever hit many of us harder than usual this year.\u00a0 We\u2019ve yearned for warmer, sunnier days, and so we find this a welcome change.\u00a0 The old has gone and the new is here!\u00a0 Hopefully you\u2019ve noticed, as I have\u2026all the colors coming back into the world.\u00a0 Hopefully we\u2019re noticing a mood-change in the world around us\u2026All for the sake of change.<\/p>\n

So then\u2026why is it that we hold onto the old for so long before letting go?<\/p>\n

The days of winter are gone, and I am very glad about that!<\/p>\n

The days of washing our clothes on a wash board out at the creek are gone, and I am very glad about that!\u00a0<\/p>\n

The days of hanging our rugs out on the clothes line and beating out the dust (I\u2019ve clearly been watching too many old movies)\u2026those days are gone, and I am very glad about that!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m even glad that we don\u2019t have the old phones with party lines, and I\u2019m glad that I don\u2019t have to write this all out by hand.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all had so many changes in our lives\u2026but yet we cling so tightly to some things that we don\u2019t want to let go of.<\/p>\n

I like this scripture as a reminder that I am a new creation every day.\u00a0 Focusing on Christ keeps me new.\u00a0 Every day is new\u2026every moment\u2026and because I am such a fractured person, I need newness every day.\u00a0 Every day is just another chance to begin again with the Lord.<\/p>\n

Walk with me into newness.\u00a0 And receive God\u2019s blessings as we explore this new beginning in time and space.\u00a0 Do not be afraid as we continue to explore who we are, who our neighbor is, and who God wants us to be in our community of faith and in this community in the Northeast corner of Nebraska.<\/p>\n

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Happy Spring \u00a0As Spring is springing, let us ponder on this verse:\u00a0 \u201cTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:\u00a0 The old has gone, the new is here!\u201d \u00a0(2 Corinthians 5:17) Sometimes it is so hard to think about change, and yet we gaze out our windows and walk around outside, giving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8agoY-1v8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5922,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions\/5922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}