What Was I Thinking?

Ya know how when you say something you know it’s gonna come back and bite you??? On the 31^st I said I wished it would get cold…yesterday I bout froze to death! Sunday I made the remark I would be so happy for school to get started again (for the girls, not me)…okay here I sit checking math homework and trying to decipher Anna’s handwriting (some people speak in tongues, she writes in tongues!) as we memorize the presidents of the United States. Tell me God doesn’t have a sense of humor! Well, all joking aside we are getting back into our “old” routine and that is a blessing. It is nice to have a predictable routine to rely upon. It is not so nice to have a routine that we become so comfortable with that we do not want to stray from it (can you see where this is going!). Being too comfortable not only hinders growth, it prevents it. That goes for individuals and for congregations. Being so ingrained in a “tradition” (that is often not really a tradition, but a preference) can so stifle a church that its very existence is threatened. The congregation may continue to meet routinely and follow familiar ritual, but their preference for comfort can unknowingly transform a congregation from a church to a private club. Why is it we cannot find that place of balance?