This Sunday – 7 September

This week at MHP we are going to be counting our chickens before they are hatched!

At some time in your life, I am certain someone has either told you not to do this or something similar: “Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched” or “Don’t put your eggs all in one basket”.

These kinds of cautionary warnings are often issued by well-meaning parents and friends who see us making plans for the future and beginning to rely on outcomes that have not yet happened. And often these words, these cautions, are delivered by caring people who don’t want to see us disappointed or giving up on other alternatives. Nothing is certain, nothing is sure until it happens they want us to realize.

What then do we make of Exodus 12:1-14?  The Hebrews are about to leave Egypt. Finally pharaoh is letting them go, releasing them from their slavery. The journey is about to begin. There are forty years in the wilderness ahead of them, though they don’t know that yet. And here is God telling them how they are to celebrate when it hasn’t yet happened.

It seems there are some things that can be counted on. Some things that we know will happen even before they have come to pass.

And I wonder as I think about that, what those things are in your life? What are the things you look forward to, knowing that nothing in this world or the world to come can take it from you?

It’s a good way to start September with so much newness lying before us, celebrating what lies ahead!  And we have a lot to celebrate…

In worship, we will be commissioning our teachers for the start of the new Sunday school year and giving out Bibles to children entering the Senior Sunday School class.

After worship we will be having our annual lawn barbeque which will be a lunch this year instead of a dinner.

And then, at two o’clock, Dorothy is hosting a concert in the sanctuary

See you then,

Grace and Peace

Karen