“Fast from Coffee, Feast on Reading” is my Lenten motto this year. Every time I miss drinking coffee, I drink water and say, “Jesus, you are my source of living water.” I also resolved to do a wide reading and regular reading. I read not for information, but for formation. I read it not as a personal luxury, but as a vocational responsibility. I read to learn to see and love all people.
One of the benefits of reading that I have found is to help me to live as a "reader" instead of a main character. All too often I find myself preoccupied with myself, but my daily reading tremendously helps me to take a step back and look at my life from different perspectives. From self-centeredness to self-forgetfulness.
Eugene Peterson rightly said, "Sabbath is not primarily about us or how it benefits us. It is about God and how God forms us." On the Sabbath day, we intentionally stop and see where God is in all this and what God is up to among us.
This Sunday you are invited to join us. We will be gathered at the Hodgdon UMC and Mars Hill UMC at 9 am. And we will also celebrate "Family Worship" Sunday at 11 am, experiencing inter-generational worship with our children, followed by "Love Feast" potluck fellowship.
If you are not able to come in person, you can worship with us online via the following links:
Let us stop, breathe, and be.
In Christ,
Pastor Victor
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