I think it was Madeleine L’Engle who had a similar title to a great children’s book called “A Wrinkle In Time.”. Time has not been easy in the past 3-4 weeks. Jesus said folks will persecute us and say all manner of things against us as we seek to follow him with our lives. I have been there in these past weeks.
If you read this, I ask you to pray with and to God for the peace of Christ, that is beyond all of our understanding, to continue to flow around our church’s preschool, our church, and with my family and myself. And for people who are focused on our demise. Many people have been hurt. None of us, no matter who or where we have found ourselves in this conflict, needs to feel what many of us have been feeling.
I am deeply grateful for the leadership of the church and all the members of the Fairlawn West UCC community who have been so supportive and taken actions on their own to facilitate resolution of the conflict. I see a deep maturity in this church that this situation has become an unintentional mirror of how God has strengthened us to go forth into the world. We have had surface in the past few weeks some new people in our church who have graduate degrees in early childhood curriculum which we did not know were present! What a godsend particularly at this moment in time.
As always, it is life a day at a time.
