one more post this month

I had said I would put one more post up this month. Well here it is.

Two families in our church are moving away. Both to Ontario. I do not really know what to think of this. They move because that is what they believe they need to do, not because it is easy for them. They leave many people behind here in Alberta, to find many more people in there new church.

I truly am excited for them. Stand in awe that they take this step. A big leap into the unknown.
I also know that it is hard. Not very long ago, I had to take a big step into the unknown also. But really, when is life not unknown? When in life do we not take big steps?

For me, although I am excited that they are doing, I am sad. Sad because we will be left here. Sad because our church is loosing members, the body is loosing parts. And that hurts. There is a void right now. A place that needs to be filled. That will be filled. Maybe not right away like we think, maybe not with who we think. But it will happen. People will come. The voids will be filled. In His timing. Through Him, the Head of the Church!

1 Corinthians 12:7-24

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 8For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: 11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 12For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. 13For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 14For the body is not one member, but many. 15If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 18But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. 19And if they were all one member, where were the body? 20But now are they many members, yet but one body. 21And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 22Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: 23And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. 24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked.