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For Wilshire Baptist Church

Easter is coming. Easter is fixed on the calendar based on lunar movements and phases that have been followed for thousands of years. It is pinned to the precise clockwork of a universe that is billions of years old, and to a Creator who is timeless.

Easter is coming, with or without a pandemic. We can’t stop Easter. We can’t postpone it until later to suit our desire for pageantry and tradition. Easter is coming as scheduled, and that’s that.

Easter is coming, and the church will be quiet; the doors will be closed, the lights turned off. But Easter is not locked inside the church. Easter lives in the heart. It was breathed into each of us before we were conceived. It is ours for the having.

Easter is coming, and you can put on your Sunday best if you wish, but Easter isn’t about dressing up. It’s about come as you are, and this year, stay where you are. But more than anything, be who you are — a beloved child of God.

Easter is coming.

For Wilshire Baptist Church

There’s been a flurry of activity on our front porch in recent days. We have seven ferns in hanging baskets and the birds have been all over them. We’ve seen doves and finches fighting over baskets with loud shrieks and flapping wings, but the calm center of attention has been a pair of robins who built a nest in the basket closest to our front door. 

Continue reading “Anxious and Hungry”

For Wilshire Baptist Church

For most of my life the word “zoom” has been associated with speed. Remember the Mazda commercials and “zoom, zoom, zoom”? But Coronavirus has taken the zoom out of life; everything has slowed to a crawl if not a halt, except I hope for those who are racing to find a treatment or a vaccine.

Continue reading “Zooming in on Life”