Rain or Shine

"For it is God's love that warms me in the sun and God's love that sends the cold rain. It is God's love that feeds me in the bread I eat and God that feeds me also by hunger and fasting. It is the love of God that sends the winter days when I am cold and sick, and the hot summer when I labor and my clothes are full of sweat: but it is God who breathes on me with the light winds off the river and in the breezes out of the wood...It is God's love that speaks to me in the birds and streams; but also behind the clamor of the city God speaks to me in His Judgments, and all these things are seeds sent to me from His will." -New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton

Sometimes I find that it's really difficult to find God working in our lives when everything seems to be going wrong. Yet on the other end of the spectrum, we tend not to find God working in our lives when everything seems to be going right either. When we are facing hardships, we think to ourselves, "How can God really be present in my life, allowing all of this to happen to me?" Yet when things are going well, we think to ourselves, "Look at how well everything is going for me, I sure am doing a great job!" So it seems that the times when we really look to praise and worship God is only when everything is going exactly as planned, routine, not better or worse.

However, our entire lives should be fixed on God's glory. This means that we praise Him when life is better than we could have ever expected and we praise Him when nothing seems to be going the way we'd like. We must always be aware that God is in control of everything in our lives, whether it is the rain or the shine. Worship God with your life no matter where you are, what you're doing, or who you are with.

-Ernie


"Even when the rain falls,
Even when the flood starts rising,
Even when the storm comes,
I am washed by the water."

-Washed by the Water by Needtobreathe

Welcome

Hey everyone,
Rory and Ernie here. Just wanted to let you know that we have this new blog up and running. This is an opportunity for us to share some of the thoughts that we are having throughout the week as well as update you about upcoming events. We hope that this will be a resource for you as well as your parents to come and see what is going on inside our heads as well as inside of our ministry. We hope to update this blog at least once a week and that you will feel free to post comments and questions. Let us know what you're thinking as you read through our posts. Thanks for visiting and we will see all of you soon!
-Rory and Ernie