Where do we find confidence to trust in God's authority and sovereignty and power so that we can believe that nothing will separate us from God's love in Christ. Perhaps we're the ones doing the separating - turning our backs on God. Perhaps we're challenged to look at our sense of independence, or our self importance, or our extensive ability to worry, or to stay so busy that we don't pay much attention to God's presence.
How can we stay connected to God so that we can believe in the promise that nothing will separate us from Christ's love? How we stay connected in our families - our personal families; our work or school families; our families of faith - may be one path of connection. Getting outside ourselves so that we actively connect by serving others is another path of connectedness.
Let us give thanks that God, in choosing us, awaits our attentiveness, holding the door open - a door that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation can close in our face.
Grace and Peace,
Pastor Shelley
After reading the scripture I was pleased to be reminded that my prayer life does not depend totally on me.
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