Scott Roley's Blog

I want to thank you for joining me in the first week of praying for the needs of our Church and the direction the Lord is calling us.  I humbly ask you to continue with me in this season of prayer and as we prepare for Lent and perhaps a time of fasting. 

We were up at a mountain retreat with our families. Everyone else had gone to bed, but Scott and I stayed up talking into the wee hours. Scott picked up his guitar and asked if he could share a song. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't what I heard. When the song was over I couldn't speak. We sat there in silence for a while. I wanted to say something, but I didn't know what. Finally, in a moment of profound clarity I think I said, "Wow".

Hello and Happy Easter,

There is a potential slide that could occur in our thinking that begins with a rejection of heaven as an amazing place to be.  We have a difficult time believing that living forever as renewed humans could really be facinatiing.  Maybe we don't see our lives as all that remarkable now.  That is a shame.  We see the brokeness and assume we must do better if there is an afterlife to get to.  We want some miracle but don't see every element and molicule around us as just that.  Our conscience tells us what is right and wrong but we ignore it.

After doing twelve or more funerals in the past nineteen months, it has become clear to me that I (we) are not made for death.  The distance between a soul that has gone to be with the Lord and the body that remains at rest until He reunites them is where my grief lies.  That gulf is heartbreaking.  Standing with Sharlene Smith at Wes' gravesite sobered me to the fact that my journey has only just begun.  I feel old and am falling apart, but the truth is I haven't even started really living yet.  Life for me is defined more clearly by eternity and not by the temporal.  remember we have a ho