Northern MA is just coming through two days of haze caused by the wildfires in Canada and the Midwest. Yesterday as I picked up my son and his family at Logan airport you could smell the fire in the air.

Today I woke to clear blue skies, but at 2:30 P.M. the haze is starting to gather again. I feel like nature is just echoing what is going on in the human world….so much haze so many distractions that threaten to draw my attention and consume my thinking. For me here in New England the skies are an unsettling distraction. This isn’t Utah or Colorado or Canada. There is no fire here. It’s not my battle to fight. The skies like so many other things, I can do nothing about, are threatening to keep me distracted from the work God has for me to do.

I’ll note the skies and put my finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing, but I will not let myself be distracted from this place this work.

1. The church has twenty five acres of land to develop through prayer.
2. We are called to raise up 100 Volunteers for our town.
3. We are called to raise up 100 volunteers for the work of prayer in our region
4. We are called to build community koinonia
5. We are called above all else to bring the message of Christ’s gospel right here in this place.

This is our work. This is my work. The sky (among other things is my distraction).

WHAT IS YOUR DISTRACTION TODAY?

We are moving quickly into Midsummer here in New England. The Vicarage forest garden is in full bloom.

St John’s Wort

Queen Anne’s Lace.

Mullein

Daisies

Morning Glory

Antique Hydrangeas

Apples

Baby Bunny getting bigger.

The garden is full and alive. So much to see and smell!