Death and Gardeners

Death and Gardeners

(Christ Is Coming)

Isaiah 35

As I sit down to write this first post of the new year I have to admit that I’m wishing I hadn’t signed up for this particular week. There’s no one to blame but me since it is an assignment I gave myself, but I’m still finding the process hard.

You see, today is one of those days that carries a heavy personal significance. We all have them. Days we dread, not because of any terrible new thing we anticipate happening, but because of the story we know is already married to the date. Nothing changes on “the day”. The narrative has already been written. The story is the same now as it was the day before and as it will be the day after, but somehow the marker of the specific date makes the realities more acutely felt.

Today is one of my days. Tomorrow may be one of yours.

This Hurts

This Hurts

Sabbath morning, May 30, 2020, Arlington Seventh-day Adventist Church Senior Pastor, Paul Kevin Wells, conveyed the following essay during our worship services. We have embraced this as our official response to the tragic events of this past week.