Springtime at St. Paul’s

Can you believe spring is finally here?  Recently while looking out my kitchen window I noticed our maple tree just beginning to bud.  What a beautiful sight.  It’s that time of the year when I feel we really seem to notice all that God has created for us and we can bask in the beauty of it.  Doesn’t it make you feel alive and energetic?  Soon it will be time for planting flowers and the garden, only to see more of God’s love appear.  He has given us so much.

It makes me feel so very thankful and blessed.  The song “Give thanks with a grateful heart” comes to my mind.  I know this song is something that we sing around Thanksgiving, but once you get it in your head, you can’t get it out.  It just seems to stick there like an old 45 record with a scratch on it going around and around.  What a beautiful hymn to have stuck in your head!  Are you already humming it as you read this letter?

Easter will soon be upon us and we will be giving thanks to our Risen Lord…The Holy One.  Later in the month we will begin serving meals to those in the community in need…to help the weak be strong,   and through bible study   the poor may know they are rich… in God’s love for them.

Just like our maple tree beginning to bud, St. Paul’s is blooming too.  April is filled with opportunities to give thanks and share in God’s love and spread that love among others.  You only need to look at the calendar
enclosed to see where God might be calling you.

I pray that God fills your life with all the beauty Spring brings and that He touches your life in a way he never has before and that you too may be in full bloom this spring.

I give thanks to Him for all of You…

Tina Hasselbach, Sr. Warden

Words: © Henry Smith 1978  CCLI 914102

Kathi Hinrichs

Daniel Orr