A childhood friend of mine, Jewel, had a genetic heart defect that caused her to become tired and winded easily. One beautiful fall day when I was young, a few friends from church decided to explore a stream at the bottom of a long, gradual hill across from my house. After our adventure, we began the ascent back to the house. Fairly quickly, Jewel struggled to keep up with us and increasingly lagged behind.
I have this cabinet in my kitchen that seems to get out of hand frequently…you open the cabinet, it falls out on you, or rather the contents do. So often I get out what I need, then stuff the rest back in and close the door quickly. Yesterday, as I was stuffing fallen lids back into the cabinet, the Holy Spirit showed me that my heart can be like this cabinet.
“How did I come to Covenant Fellowship Church?” is a question I still ask myself sometimes…One Sunday morning Aaron had off from work, which was rare. So, I looked at Aaron and said, “Should we go to church?”…He said “Sure,” to which then I responded, “What church? Our church or the new one?” I think we needed to go on a Target run anyway that day, so we decided to give the “new church” a try.
My three friends started inviting me to church…I would continually turn them down and would give them a hard time. I didn’t see the need. After all, I was a good girl and never missed mass.
Hearing that the 2022 Women’s Retreat theme was “friendship” didn’t excite me. I have friends. I have great friends. And I don’t fear making friends. Many have seen me greet on a Sunday morning with a huge grin on my face because I love any excuse to get to say hello to every single person whenever possible. I wasn’t convinced this theme would bring me anything groundbreaking. As it turned out, although my worldview wasn’t…
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