A TUESDAY IN LATE WINTER 2026

The snow still covers the ground in great heaps. It was 3 degrees Fahrenheit when I woke up. More snow is slated to fall this evening during the homeward commute, but by tomorrow it will be 50 degrees and raining. It’s definitely a New England Tuesday in late winter. You never know quite what your going to wake up to, and yet the day has to go on regardless of what’s going on in the atmosphere around you.

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Tuesdays is a long day. I generally start with wake up prayer around 2 A.M. This morning I was out the door by 4:30 A.M. so I could get the church set up for prayer and my first post written for the morning.

Now it is 7 A.M. I have finished my after report from prayer meeting and posted it to all concerned and now I am heading home to do the farm work.

At 10 we have church staff meeting and then at 1:30 P.M. I am supposed to meet some library personnel to look at alternative venues for our next Community Conversation at the end of March. We filled the room at our first conversation and people were so excited they promised to bring others to the next conversation. So today we are looking at two larger spaces in town.

If the snow doesn’t;t cancel us, tonight I have youth group and then closing off with family prayer at 8:30 P.M. There is lots to do is spite of New England’s weather.

WHAT DOES YOUR TUESDAY LOOK LIKE?

THOUGHTS FROM THE 21 DAYS PT. 1

In January our church held its annual congregational fast. For 21 days we prayed together, fasted together and meditated on 1 John together. Here are my thoughts from those times of devotion in 1 John.

DAY 1 -That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 1 JOHN 1:1

Your faith is built on the historical, physical reality of Jesus, not an illusion.

Jesus is not my subjective reality. He is not someone I made up in my mind like some imaginary friend. He is a historical figure. History attests to his life. History attests to His expanding influence and history attests to the millions of miraculous life transformations in His name. He is reality. His promise is sure. We can be sure what He said will come to pass.

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INFINITY LOOP

I have been feeling like a return to creative writing projects is at hand in 2026. I’ve felt it before, but have not had the resolve or the organization to carry out said projects. I feel it is important just now to make a return to creative writing. I have to admit, I don;t really know why…I just know it is time.

Here is a project I have been working on since Sunday’s sermon, on the Importance of Corporate Prayer, preached b y Jonathan Bauver.

YOU CAN LISTEN TO THE SERMON HERE

INFINTIY LOOP

The Code is broken.

The program repeating to its origin point.

We are all lines of code injected into the glitching game

Born to sin, repent and repeat.

Even Heaven is stuck in its perpetual “Holy! Holy! Holy!”

Leaving us with “Woe is me! I am flying to pieces here!”

And “How long oh Lord?”.

The White Hat Hacker came and wrote a new line,

“0’s and 1’s”…”X’s and O’s”…

“It is finished!” He said,

But the infinity loop,

STILL…STILL…STILL

HOLY…HOLY…HOLY

SIN…REPENT…REPEAT.

Here we wait for the seventh seal to be torn.

Then the unreachable code will be breached and

The loop will terminate.

“It is finished!” will “Behold I make all things new!”

“HOLY! HOLY! HOLY!” will be swallowed in that unprecedented half hour silence of Heaven that marks what is next.

Finally, sin… repent…repeat will be dressed in robes of white and never hunger or thirst again.

At last, infinity will receive eternity.