Pastor's Update

Greetings!

I know very little about science...in fact, to be honest, my knowledge of science is next to nothing. Yes, I know I should know more about science...and yes, I know how important science is to my daily life. But I gotta be honest with you, when I took Chemistry in high school, I felt like the kid who had the teacher who was frustrated with them over their inability to learn the periodic table. The teacher finally broke down and yelled, "When I was your age, we had to know both the name and the weights." The poor kid snapped back, "Yeah, but there were so few of them back then."

But I read that the same atoms that are in the air today, are the same atoms that were in the air thousands of years ago. Based on that train of thought, I have come to a conclusion that sooner or later we all breathe an atom that has been breathed before. I am not sure if I am entirely correct in that thought, but if I am all I can say is "WOW!!" Imagine what that means...I might be breathing the same air that Michelangelo breathed...or George Washington or Moses. Imagine that you have inhaled the same air as the disciples or Joan of Arc or Martin Luther.

That is so cool...but let me take it a little bit farther if I may. The writer of Genesis tells us that when God created humans, He formed clay and into that clay He breathed. So to me it means that some of these atoms had been, literally, the breath of God. When Jesus lived, he was a human being (however extraordinary) who needed oxygen to live. After His resurrection, in John's Gospel, the writer tells us that Jesus breathed on His disciples. Breath. Simple ordinary breath.The breath of God.

The next time you look at someone and think about the differences between you, remember, you share the same air. Literally. No matter how unusual you may think someone...no matter whether you look and see vast differences physically or recognize differences culturally and socially...you are breathing the same air. We look into the same sky, depend on the same sun, feel the rain, the cold, the heat. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children. Tall, short, dark, light, wide, narrow, old, young. We all share that one simple, extraordinary thing: air.

Breath. Simple ordinary breath. The breath of God.

Take care and God Bless...See you in Church!!