Michael Harrison's e-devotion

  Psalm 46:10  NLT “Be still, and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world.” This last seven days has seemed more than just a week.  Julie and I have been quarantined because we have had covid.  But it is almost over.   We were visiting our new granddaughter and her parents last week when I started not feeling well.  After that only Julie and myself tested positive.  It is our experience that we have very few and mild symptoms.  That could be because we are vaccinated.  That could be because of other reasons, but for whatever we were sick for only a few days. What have I learned over the last seven days?  Thanks for asking. First, the world is still moving around us, but we have had to press pause, take the sideline, or sit still for a little while.  We have to be ready to get back in the swing of it when the time comes.  It didn’t wait for us.   I will be ready to get b...

This is the first devotion of the new year, 2022 which is set to be an incredible year.  There are so many things I would like to share with you, and I even had a plan to go through a series.  But I have some things on my heart that I need to move through for the next couple days. First, I have been amazed that we have avoided the covid-19 virus, but it has hit our home with only mild symptoms as of this weekend.  I was to officiate a wedding on Saturday and lead our church in the first worship of the near year, but all of that gets pushed to the side while we are quarantined.  Kind of puts things in perspective.  I am grateful for those who stand in for us, serve us and especially those who keep us encouraged and taken care of.  We will get through this.  God is still good. Second, I learned early Saturday that our dear friend Fred Harrington had passed away during the night.  I plan to write tomorrow about Fred and his faith journey.  He ha...

  Christmas is 10 days away.  There is no reason to focus on things that keep us from celebrating the real meaning of this season.  But that would be easy. 2020 has been full of reasons to be depressed or stressed rather than focusing on how we are blessed.  There is a virus that keeps changing, or so it seems, with fear all around.  So much fear keeps hitting us that we aren’t willing to step up and live.  You are either bad because you do something or bad because you didn’t do it. Seems that there is no way to win.  That is when we have tried to out live the Coronavirus, but that didn’t work.  We have tried to make it a conspiracy or just pretend it isn’t a big deal.  So how do we deal with all the issues around us? Let me simply remind us that none of the stuff we are dealing with changed who our God is and what He can do.  Remember the question that I shared last week, “since when has impossible ever stopped you?”  God is still ...