April 2014 – Pr. Eric’s Newsletter

“Beneath the cross of Jesus I long to take my stand, the shadow of a mighty rock within a weary land, a home within the wilderness…”

Dear friends,

Usually my life is not like a journey. It is more like small excursions in which I go out, have an adventure and then come back home again. I love having a home base. It is not a great house or anything, but I have a little office where I can read by the fire. It is by the dinning room and kitchen where there is a cupboard and a fridge that have good stuff to eat. There are all the other rooms where all my needs can be taken care of. I go out, I come back, I go out, I come back. It is my base. It is where I get refueled. It is my shade.

Our spiritual lives are like that too. We have a base where our souls get refueled, where our spiritual needs get taken care of, where we can rest up and get ready for another excursion into the world. That is Holy Week. It is where we visit Jesus, as he eats his last supper, offering us forgiveness life and salvation. It is where we visit Jesus on the cross and are invited to lay down our own burdens of defeat and sin and worry that the world lays on us. It is where we meet Jesus as he is raised again in victory over all powers and evil and defeats.

Our Lenten journey is a reminder to return again and again to our base.

Pastor Eric