WORTHINGTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH614-885-5365
January 2009
Frederick Buechner begins his devotional for a year of readings with these words:
I have discovered that if you really keep your eye peeled to it and your ears open, if you really pay attention to it, even such a limited and limiting life as the one I was living on Rupert Mountain opened up onto extraordinary vistas. Taking your children to school and kissing your wife goodbye. Eating lunch with a friend. Trying to do a decent day's work. Hearing the rain patter against the window.
There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or NOT to recognize Him.
I pray for you and I pray for myself that in the year to come we might more consistently recognize the presence of God in our daily lives. The God-With-Us born at Christmas will be with us in the twists and turns of the year that is still unknown. And a part of the strength for living comes from knowing that we can't journey beyond God's Presence.
Have a Holy Year,
-Alan
January Happenings
Friday & Saturday, January 2 & 3: College-Age Overnight at Camp OtterbeinSunday, January 4: Epiphany Sunday
Friday, January 9: Family Game Night
Saturday, January 10: "Chummin' with the Chairs"
Wednesday, January 14: Taizé Service
Monday, January 19: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Church Office and CPC Closed
Friday, January 26: Church Offic and CPC Closed