As Becky and I prepare for a week of vacation, for some “rest and renewal,” I ponder what (who) I am temporarily leaving behind.  Thoughts of thankfulness and gratitude swell up in me for my family, my church family and other brothers and sisters in Christ.  The Apostle Paul in Philippians expresses my thoughts of gratitude, thankfulness and prayers for you all -  “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ; just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart…you are all partakers with me of grace…And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.” (1: 3-11)

As the old song goes, “I will meet you in the Morning!” 

In His Service,

Pastor Rod