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Daily Devotional August 10

21 But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
22 The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases,
his mercies never come to an end;
23 they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
      -Lamentations 3:21-23, NRSV

This week, we at Wesley Church will hold our annual “We Got Your Back” backpack festival, providing a tangible and practical expression of God’s love to families in our community. Obviously, Backpack (like everything else) will look a little different in this season of covid-tide. (The event will look more like a drive-through curbside pickup service than our typical throw-open-the-doors festival.) However, the core of the event, and the care and concern it demonstrates, will continue despite COVID-19. 
As we count down to the day when we distribute filled backpacks to children in our community, I thought it could be meaningful to write devotionals inspired by the items in my “backpack” — the work bag I bring with me each time I go to the church. With 5 days to go til Backpack, today’s devotional is inspired by one of my backpack staples: a day planner.


My day planner is a must-have item in my work bag. For years, my husband has been trying to get me to switch to a digital calendar on my smartphone… but I keep coming back to a conventional, tried-and-true, pen-and-paper calendar. My entire schedule — at times, it seems, my whole life — is inscribed in the little boxes on those pages. 

Of course, recently my calendar looks a little different. Items crossed out. Arrows pointing to when events have been rescheduled. Now-ubiquitous words like “virtual” or “Zoom.” The current state of my marked-up, crossed-out, arrow-inked calendar is the very picture of the kind of flexibility required by COVID. 

For a planner like me, that’s difficult. I like clear certainties. I like knowing what to expect. I like being able to plan. COVID interrupts all of that. In covid-tide, nothing is written in pen; everything is in pencil. I’ll likely have to erase it anyway, right? Can’t be sure of what tomorrow will bring. 

I may not be able to write the events and meetings and gatherings in pen… but perhaps there’s something else I can inscribe in those little calendar squares. “The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases,” Lamentations tells us, “his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning” (Lamentations 3:22-23, NRSV). That’s what I can expect tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that. Steadfast love. Unending mercy.
And I don’t even have to pencil that in. I can write it in pen.

Pastor Candy

Watch for steadfast love and mercy today, friends, and remember:all:

Our God is bigger than coronavirus. 
Our vision is bigger than coronavirus, too. 
We are people blessing people. 
We are Wesley Church.   


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Sunday June 26, 2022

Masking will remain optional at Wesley Church

In order to help you make an informed decision about your own mitigation practices, Wesley Church will share our county’s updated risk category and the CDC’s corresponding guidelines in each edition of our weekly enews.
We are currently in the “high risk” category. The CDC guidelines for the “high” category are:

   Wear a mask indoors in public

   Stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines   

   Get tested if you have symptoms

   Additional precautions may be needed for people at high risk for severe illness

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