A letter from the future

Last Sunday we experienced something unique. Rather than sit indoors and listen to a message, we were sent out on a journey. Our first stop was beside a river, where we reflected on Israel standing before a flooded Jordan, looking toward the promised land. "Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water's edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing." (Joshua 3:15-16). So that they would remember this miracle, "Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day." (Joshua 4:9). We too need "stones" that remind us of what God has done, so that when life flows normally we don't forget His faithfulness. From there we moved to a garden and looked forward – imagining ourselves five years into the future, having become someone we were grateful to be, then writing a letter back to our present self. What would you tell yourself today? God is always present, but we so easily forget. "I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago." (Psalms 77:11). Take a moment to not only remember but commit to your future. (Craig B). Open Bible – bit.ly/Jos3v15-16, bit.ly/Jos4v9, bit.ly/Psa77v11