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Friday and Sabbath, June 27 and 28, 2025
This past Sunday I was part of a crew transforming Auburn (WA) Adventist Academy from a week-long camp meeting back into a boarding secondary school. My role in this adventure was to carry maybe a hundred tiny wooden chairs out of a classroom which had housed a score or two of “Beginners” kids ages 0 to 4, for whom I had played the piano.
Before we crew members squared our shoulders and headed out to accomplish our tasks, we ate breakfast in the academy cafeteria. On little stacks in the food line we discovered these napkins, rescued using the best “save the planet” instincts, from a supply of Alaska Airlines materials which the airline no longer needed.
As I gazed at this little masked family, my mind went back to those first uncertain months of the pandemic. We closed our church down, and for several months I preached in our sanctuary, empty except for a YouTube camera and two incredibly faithful audio-visual experts. Some of those Sabbaths were mournful ones. Though I and the AV team (and everyone else who sent us video clips with children’s stories, music, and other features) tried to keep a valiantly positive attitude, we just didn’t know for sure when we could get back to normal.
But we got through it. And though the daily news presents us with puzzling and equilibrium-jolting reminders that things are not normal on this planet, we know that God finally bring His kingdom back here.
The following link leads you to a huge number of God’s promises which can assure you that He really cares.