{"id":5970,"date":"2025-03-29T08:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T13:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2025-03-29T08:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T13:44:42","slug":"ponderings-from-pastor-patti-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/29\/ponderings-from-pastor-patti-april-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponderings from Pastor Patti – April 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cultivating Love Through Creation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>It is difficult to think about longer brighter days, new growth, and the colors that enter our world with spring coming, when there is a new blanket of snow blowing around outside creating hazardous driving conditions.\u00a0 As I write this article, I am pondering on how I can create a meaningful study on the Lord\u2019s Prayer through Facebook Live tonight since we are not able to gather in person.<\/p>\n

But by the time you read this, the snow that is blanketing us today will provide moisture for the new growth that we will witness this month.\u00a0 As our trees begin budding and providing leafy shade, and the spring flowers sprout and bloom, let us remember the promises of new life that come in the events of Holy Week \u2013 from Palm Sunday to Maundy Thursday, Good Friday to Easter Vigil, and then the new life of Easter and the resurrection life.\u00a0 In these events we remember God\u2019s story of bringing new life and new creation even amid the most uncertain, anxious and dark days.\u00a0 At the same time, this month is a perfect opportunity to remember the goodness of all of God\u2019s creation which God entrusts into our care.\u00a0 God is doing something new, cultivating new creation and new life, for me and for you, and for all of God\u2019s beloved.<\/p>\n

Our Cultivating Love theme for April is \u201cCultivating Love through Creation<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Cultivating Creation provides an intentional opportunity for us to look outward beyond the walls of our church \u2026 even the walls of our home.\u00a0 It calls us to think bigger.\u00a0 To see the fields, rivers, lakes, oceans, mountains and all of the world that surrounds us, and to care for all of creation.\u00a0 God calls us to care for and cultivate creation, and to focus on growing as disciples and stewards of God\u2019s love.<\/p>\n

So, a question to ponder on this month is this:\u00a0 How might God be inviting you to join in and cultivate creation?\u00a0 What are two or three ways that you will cultivate creation this year?<\/p>\n

Our Lenten Midweek worship\/study continues with our look into the Book of Faith, 40 Days in the Lord\u2019s Prayer.\u00a0 I always learn a lot with this study and I hope that you too are experiencing newness in your relationship with God through this study.<\/p>\n

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