Heat.We wait for warmth.Spring teases us, drawing our senses to look for the summer sun.When late June arrives and we’ve still not turned on the AC, those who love summer heat get nervous and grouchy.Then summer heat arrives, bringing summer flowers, summer scents, and summer life buzzing and chirping and calling us outdoors.
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Weddings.The groomsmen in their black tuxedoes offer their arms to bridesmaids in sleeveless dresses holding fresh bouquets that celebrate the day.Guests take their places for the ceremony and all heads turn to accompany the bride as her father walks her to that moment when woman becomes wife and man is blessed to be her husband.Rings find their homes.Hearts and voices express a lifelong promise of selfless love.
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Fun.Amusement parks.Water parks.Even something as simple as blowing bubbles makes a summer day more pleasant.Summers provide the weeks in a child’s elementary years when school is both a faint memory and a future opportunity.Running, biking, batting, skating, camping, kicking, and just hangin’ around add so much fun to the season!
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Jesus.Out of all the top-bar images appearing on this website, the solitary cross may seem most “out of place”.We may recognize it as an object commonly pointing skyward, but we may not, in our minds, associate summer as a time for Jesus.I am inviting you to come to hear the Word of Jesus Christ this summer.Jesus blesses us with the warmth of creation, the foundation of marriage, and the excitement of looking forward to a place in heaven that offers more joy than the best summer fun.
If summer is a time for vacations, and lawn chairs, for relaxing by a campfire, or lying around the pool then summer is a time for Jesus because Jesus feeds our souls, lifts the burden of our guilty consciences, and inspires hope in our hearts.The Lord Jesus invited us to know him better and enjoy this kind of rest when he said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls” (Matthew 11: 28-29).
Come and worship with us at St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Congregation.It’s where you will find Jesus.
