The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
The changing of the seasons is a funny thing. Sometime between last Sunday and this upcoming Sunday, Advent, our yearly pilgrimage towards a manger in Jerusalem begins. Does it happen on Wednesday or Thursday halfway through the week? Does it start when the first church is gathered into Worship Sunday morning? What about those communities who gather on Saturday night? It makes me think about the debate about when does the Holiday or Christmas season officially begins and we can all put up our lights and trees. Some folks (and certain department stores) would tell you as soon as Halloween is over you are good to go, and others are a bit stricter and say waiting until a week or two before Christmas. My family always fell in the middle and started our Christmas season after Thanksgiving. Every year on the night of Thanksgiving we would get home from being with family we would go into the living room, make some hot chocolate, curl up under blankets and watch our first Christmas movie of the season (for a while it was always Polar Express). It’s a tradition I’ve tried to uphold since Maddie and I started our lives together. For me it’s just always been a comforting way to know we’ve transitioned into something new.
I know at Salem, and in many of the other places in our lives we are going through transitions as well. You all have called me, and now as of last Sunday installed me as your Pastor too. But does that mean the long road of transition to a new leader are over? How will we know when we’ve exited the waters of uncertainty and can start to build something on solid ground? How will find God while we are exiting this season of life and entering a new one? I’m not sure I have answers yet, but I’m excited that we will get to find them together.
Peace,
Pastor Corey
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