It is hunting season in Montana.   While watching a high elevation meadow where the elk had been feeding, I was reading Psalm 19 and thinking about how the heavens declare the glory of God.   The psalmist wrote that God has pitched a tent for the sun, and it rises in one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other.   As I reflected on that passage, I took note of how things change as the sun makes it's course over a few hours.   I noticed in the meadow that as the sun moved across the sky, things took on different shapes, the colors shifted, shadows disappeared in one place and showed up in another, and new things appeared as the rays of light set upon them. That is our place in life right now.

      The sun has set on our ministry in Montana, and we are anticipating by faith a  sunrise of  new ministry at the Grace Memorial Community Church in Cumberland, Maryland, the home of my birth and the community where my parents live.  As the sun set in the west, we are faithfully following the course of the SON to a horizon full of new light, new life, and  new relationships.  We know that the rays of God's Grace are going to shine in new places.  We are praying God's blessings upon those we left and those we will meet, that the warmth and radiance of the Son will be realized in new ways, from one end of the heavens to the other.