June 1
Welcome to "Pastor's Ponderings", the name that I have finally chosen for this weekly devotional thought.  I hope you are enjoying our brief moments together.  
First,  a happy and blessed new month to all!  
June 1st is the unofficial beginning of summer with three long months of schedules that are a little less hectic...a few more daylight hours to spend doing things we enjoy or outside work that needs to get done.  Yes, we can actually wear ourselves  down to a frazzle "relaxing", if we aren't careful.
Which reminds me of a story about a lady filling out all the paper work for a retirement village.  She filled in the date, her age, her name and social security number, then her street address and state. In the blank left for zip, she wrote:
 "about normal for my age."
   If your "zip" is about normal or perhaps a little below normal for your age, please remember the Lord's Day this summer.  Make time in your busy schedule to "rest" in God's house, and quiet time for devotion and prayer.  Take your Bible out to that bench or swing in your back yard and just relax and read.  Find a special quiet place to talk with God.  
This next Sunday is Pentecost and John's Gospel lesson invites us: "On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, 'If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink."
   Yes, our Lord offers us the refreshment of "living water", if we will just take the time to stop and drink.
Have a refreshing and blessed summer and I will see you at the drinking fountain!