God's grace when we flip out
I have been stuck up here in Canada working on a major steam generator replacement at a nuclear power plant on the coast of Lake Huron. The hours are long and the downtime is boring. As the job continues to stack up delays, I have pretty much stopped counting the days until I can get out of here. Because of COVID restrictions, the churches here have very limited attendance, so I have been attending my home church online at eastsidepres.com. In some ways it makes me feel less isolated, and in other ways it makes me feel more isolated. I get to see familiar people, which helps, but I don't really have any contact with them, and that makes me feel alone. The time I do spend with church has become critical to me. Worship, I have found, is almost as critical to a whole human existence as breathing. We were spiritually designed for group worship. It is part of what we will do for eternity. That leads me to a week that could have either been a complete disaster or something entirely diffe...