An Invitation
Greetings, Visitors and New Beginnings Family! Will you please join me for a cup of coffee?
As a retiree I have the opportunity to enjoy other things that I hadn’t before. One of those things is having coffee and breakfast with my family. Once a month Linda and I go out for breakfast with our son Jeffrey. One of the nice things about Jeffrey becoming a working adult is that every other month he picks up the tab. So, I say, what’s not to like? Good company, good coffee, and good food every other month for free! Still, hands down, the best part about our cup(s) of coffee and breakfast together is the fellowship we enjoy with one another.
On a monthly basis Linda and I travel to Sheboygan Falls to visit my mom. There we also enjoy having coffee and breakfast with my mom and sisters joined by their husbands. The conversations we typically have with each other at the restaurant there tend to be lively and very enjoyable! Unfortunately, COVID-19 has put a crimp on those type of activities for the time being.
I miss those times of coffee and breakfast with my family and I am looking forward for them to resume. Still, there is something else I miss and that’s getting together with my New Beginnings Alliance Church family. I look forward to the day when we will “figuratively speaking” enjoy a cup of coffee and breakfast with one another again every Sunday morning.
That said, without the aforementioned hardships associated with COVID-19, I would have never otherwise thought to encourage you via electronic media. Because of COVID-19 I sought God for an opportunity to use the gifts He has given me to bless others.
God has gifted me to write in a folksy, light-hearted, and storytelling kind of way. It’s just the type of conversation you’d have enjoying coffee and breakfast with your loved ones. Now God through COVID-19 has just opened a new door of ministry for me through this blog!
As I am writing this blog that is posted for you here on NBAC’s web site, I am drinking a cup of coffee. If you like, pour yourself a cup of coffee and as you read my blogs, think about those things in your life that my blogs remind you of. In that way it will almost be like having a virtual conversation with me over a cup of coffee! It is my fervent prayer that this blog might help you in some way to see the blessings and opportunities God has for you in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.
Needless to say, I have much more to share about how God is blessing me that I will save for future posts. For now, I intend for this blog to post on a weekly to bi-weekly basis. If you want me to notify you of new postings or have a comment please e-mail me using the address in our church directory otherwise call me and I will find another way for you to be notified of new postings.
Until then, remember this passage from the Word of God in Psalm 133:1, “How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!”
(hmm, I wonder if this passage could also mean how pleasant it is when God’s people enjoy a cup of coffee with one another.)
Your fellow pilgrim looking for a country of our own (Hebrews 11:13-14),
Gary