Archways October 2023

When many retailers took down their Halloween decorations on November 1, they immediately put Christmas trees up, hung the garland and lights, and encouraged us to buy, buy, buy. In the retail world it’s been Christmas since Halloween. In the Church, we say “not so fast”, as we take our time getting to Christmas by way of the 4 Sundays of Advent. The older I get, the more I appreciate this time of slowing down that the Church offers to contrast the hurry of the holiday season

t’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is almost here once again. It is the time of year when we take time to be grateful for our many blessings. I’ve become particularly grateful each morning as I drive around Caraway Mountain on the way to Archdale from my house in Asheboro. I get the joy of seeing the vibrancy of fall in all its glory. There is something about the way the morning sun hits the trees that says, “look at us!” that urges me to pay attention, to be present in the moment, and to be thankful for what is happening right now.

It’s been a long time since I read or watched “Alice in Wonderland”, but one of my favorite quotes is:
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a…Color?

Susan Stewart shared the children’s moment in the July 23 worship service. She showed a puzzle she had done where she had to find the names of Crayola crayon colors. In the puzzle were colors such as shamrock, eggplant, and fuzzy wuzzy. All these years of
thinking that fuzzy wuzzy was a bear, we find out that it’s also a color. Who knew that
colors could have such interesting names and what happened to red, blue, green and
yellow? Susan made the point that even when so much is changing, God stays the same. Thank goodness for that!