Monday, June 1, 2015

BOB

Good morning, this is Bob Peden of Central a United Methodist Community here in Meridian, MS. I recently spent a few days traveling along the Blue Ridge Parkway, a 469 mile roadway that mostly follows the Blue Ridge chain of the Appalachian Mountains. Traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway one skips from one peak to another with only minor dips into gaps in between. But eventually I had to return home, coming down from the mountaintops.
Sometimes we talk about the Christian life as though it were like the Blue Ridge Parkway skipping from one mountaintop experience to another. But at Central we are a community of believers who know that life brings with it highs and lows. And we are committed to walking with one another through the good times, the bad times, and even just the ordinary times. For we know that connected to one another we can survive life’s experiences, and that by being connected to other honest Christians, we can become more closely connected to God, the one who truly knows, and walks with us through, the mountaintops and the valleys of life.