Slide Shows, Year-end Reflections

I made the commitment to make a slide show for our Variety Show and Annual Meeting next week. It seemed like an easy thing to do especially since almost all of the Variety Show has been planned and executed by Pastor Maria and David Phelps, our music director. However, I spent all day working on it yesterday and it’s still not done. Every time I make a change, the order and titles get messed up. Every time I think I have everything in there, I realize I don’t have this group or that. Pastor Maria gave me advice that I often give her, it’s never going to be perfect, eventually it has to be good enough.

The thing is, I know this is true. So I apologize in advance for the pictures I don’t have or groups I missed. At this point I am making choices for my sanity. And, looking at the pictures I realize that last year at Grace was far better than good enough. There is such beauty in the work that this community of faith did in God’s name last year. Looking at all of the pictures and even recalling the pictures that I have seen but don’t have- God has been at work. From our Transforming Inside and Out Campaign, to the connections formed through our small groups like the Chosen, Women’s Retreats, Quilters, OK at Play, music ministry, within Children, Youth and Family there is so many good things. I am beyond grateful for the ways God led us last year, showing up day after day, in both the beauty and laughter and the tears. I am thankful for the ways God worked in you and I am thankful I am almost done with this slideshow and the belief it will be good enough.

Blessings,

Pastor Joanna Mitchell