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I imagine that you, like me, were quite surprised to wake up to snowfall on Monday morning.
After all this nice, warm weather that we’ve been having, and our very mild winter, I’m pretty sure I
literally exclaimed out loud, “You have got to be kidding me! Really?” Never have I seen snow this
late in the year. Of course the snowfall wasn’t heavy and as it grew later in the morning, this snow
turned to rain and melted away whatever slight accumulation that had remained on the ground.

But this snowfall has caused me to think about expectations and how often the greatest
blessings in life come from that which we never expected. During this Easter season, we spend a
good deal of time focused on the disciples and how they responded to the resurrected Jesus. Despite
Jesus’ telling the disciples that he would rise, they never seemed to expect it. When he died, they
were devastated and felt like their world had ended. And yet three days later, he did rise. And
because of his resurrection, we now are able to know that sin and death are defeated and that we do
not need to fear death, as if death had any finality. As Paul says, since we have suffered a death like
his, through baptism, we know that we will also rise like him. That was not what the disciples would
have been originally expecting, and yet look at the tremendous blessing they found through that!

As I think back on my life, there have been many great things that have gone my way, quite
unexpectedly. In high school and most of college, I never would have imagined becoming a minister,
and yet I experience tremendous blessing from this calling. I never would have imagined moving to
little McConnellsburg, PA, and yet here I have found a home.

So in what unexpected ways has God blessed you and your life? What unexpected blessings
are just around the corner? Just like this short lived Monday morning snow, you never know what
you might wake up to find.

Pastor Evan

 


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