Sunday, September 11, 2022
Sunday Reflection: The end of summer
Yesterday I went to a college football game-- the University of Minnesota vs. the Western Illinois Leathernecks. It wasn't a very close game, but it was a fantastic day. It was warm-but-not-hot (about 65), and the sun came out. The place was full of people starting college, or continuing college, or who went to college at some point, or didn't go to college but really like that team. Goldy the Gopher had to do 353 pushups, which the local paper appropriately treated as the most important part of the whole show.
It's a poignant time, this shift to fall. It's perfect bike-riding weather, the time when (if you do what I do) work shifts into gear, and things seem to matter more.
Back in Michigan, there was a church near my house that literally closed for the summer. I found that kind of amazing, but it also makes sense. As I've described here before, we are built for cycles, for seasons and change. Not every moment is equal. There is a time to rest, and a time to swing back into things.
I hope that we are recovering from COVID in a way that allows for that-- which brings us back to everything, including our faith lives, with a renewed vigor. We need it, our churches need it, and so does the world.
