February 25, 2026

Lent is underway, as is my sermon series titled “God’s Care.” How do you experience God’s care in your life? Traditional trinitarian titles for God’s caring nature are Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer. How do you see God creating in your life? Where in your life do you find or see redemption? And, finally, how is your life sustained by God?

Please pardon a bit of theology here… I tend to view God as the Ground of All Being; a view made popular in the mid-20th century by the theologian Paul Tillich. God as the Ground of All Being is the source, the power, and the structure of all existence. There is nothing in Creation in which God does not participate in some way or another. As Creator, God creates the snow. As Redeemer, God makes the snow fall from one moment to the next. As Sustainer, God maintains the snow… until the temperature reaches 32 degrees. And, as a created creature, I shovel the snow. Thank you, God!

I write this short reflection with snow on the ground. Just think, come Easter on April 5, short sleeves may… may… be in order.

Rev. Eric