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About Our Pastor
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Pastor
Bill Thalacker has been serving St. John’s since March of 2003.
******Pastor Thalacker's Word's for February 2012****** I've been in a kind of reflective mood lately for several personal reasons. I'm reminded as the days lengthen after the first part of the year of several things...
...of course I think about how quickly time passes for all of us, whether we think about it or not. It seems that the older I get, the more quickly that time goes;
...about how all of us are given a limited time here on this earth. It seemed for many that persons like Joe Paterno or my father or others would go on forever but that didn't happen. Persons may do their work for longer than many would have had a reason to expect but that ends too. So I think also about my parents and their parents and their parents, as the Scripture says, "to the third and fourth generation" which is about as many generations as any of us get to know personally;
...I think about how the seasons change and how our lives change with them.
I think that most will say that we've had an unusually mild winter without
the bitter cold weather that sometimes comes in January and that for me the
mild times make me think of spring and the seasons for planting crops and
growing in this lush rural paradise in which we live with some of the
greatest and most fertile soil on the planet.
...I think of persons who are sick in body but well in faith and spirit and
heart and people who are well in body but sick in faith and spirit and heart
and of their respective triumphs and disappointments.
I'm going to suspect that the year ahead is going to be like that too. Do you also think about what a strange and wonderful thing it is to stand with Jesus before the one who judges the ages...when the days of the world have shortened to nothing (and as Magnus Brostrup Landstad writes in his great hymn) "when dawneth eternity's morrow"? (SBH 333 / LBW 313).
Pastor T.
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