Eden Prairie United Methodist Church
Connect with Us!
  • Home
  • Being Church
    • Crops For PROP
    • Serving Our Neighbors
    • Fellowship >
      • Women's Retreat
      • Church Directory
  • Children | Youth
    • Nursery
    • Sunday School (Preschool through 7th grade)
    • Especially for Families
    • Rooted (3rd - 4th grade)
    • Vacation Bible School
    • Middle School Youth (Grades 7-8)
    • Confirmation (8th-9th grade)
    • Higher Ground (10th-12th grade)
  • Music
    • Adult Music Opportunities
  • About EPUMC
    • Worship
    • Staff
    • Notes from Pastor Becky Jo
    • Lay Leadership
    • A Reconciling Congregation
    • Tumbleweed Newsletters
    • Videos
    • Annual Report
    • Sermons
    • Calendar
  • Prayer
  • Online Giving
  • Contact Us

Weekly Memo: Treasure the Moment

3/5/2020

Comments

 
Dear Friends, 
When do you know it’s time to treasure the moment before you?  It isn’t always easy to do.  Too often for me I realize it well after the event is over.  Twice in the second chapter of the Gospel according to Luke we find Mary “treasured” the things before her in the moment they were happening.
 
The first happened after the shepherds had visited the Mary, Joseph and the newly arrived Messiah who was lying in the manger.  She had given birth.  She had been visited by shepherds who had come at the directive of an angelic choir.  This was not the ordinary way for motherhood to begin.  This was not what Mary expected of her life.  So there, in the midst of the unexpected, “Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart.” (v.19) 
 
The second came around the time her Jesus was about 12 years old.  Mary and Joseph had left Jerusalem after a festival, thinking their child was with a relative, only to realize they had left him in Jerusalem.  When they finally meet up with him, he is teaching the religious leaders at the temple.  It was an amazing thing, to which Mary responds by, “treasuring all these things in her heart.” (v.51b)
 
This morning I found myself treasuring the moments.  My daughter was at the breakfast table with me.  That doesn’t happen often.  And though the earbuds were in and we didn’t exchange too many words, there she was!  At the table!  With me!  Treasure the moment.
 
Tonight we will have dinner guests, which is a fancy way to say that my mother-in-law, my mother and my sister will be coming for dinner.  My sister is feeling really good right now.  This will be the second meal we have shared together in the past seven days.  Treasure the moment.
 
Last night at our simple worship we were having a discussion about the cost of being too busy.  It was interactive, and the children (did you hear that!), the children felt invited to add to the conversation.  And it was out of the mouth of an elementary-age girl that God spoke the truth to us last night.  Treasure the moment.
 
How will you treasure the moment?  Keep your eyes and your heart open to what is right in front of you today.  Look with the eyes of Mary at the people around you.  See what rich treasure God has placed right before you, one that you can soak in at the very moment it is happening.  See how God is blessing you deeply.
 
Treasuring the moments with you,
Pastor Becky Jo Messenbrink
 

Comments

    Archives

    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    October 2012

    RSS Feed

Connect with us!
office@prairiechurch.org
(952) 937-8781

15050 Scenic Heights Road
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Picture
Picture