June 4, 2026

Dear Church Family

My husband, Kerry, was clearing out between the bushes here at the church and he saw something fluttering in one of the bushes. I grabbed a baggie and took a look and gently grabbed around the birdie to stop the flapping and keep him calm.  I could see that his foot was caught in some nesting material and tied around the branch.  I was able to free him from the branch and then freed his leg from more of the stringy stuff.  He did fly off and I haven’t seen him since.  Not sure if his little foot is well or not, but he has been set free!   

Sometimes life can seem like that for us.  We are flapping and flitting and sometimes find ourselves upside down as we try to make life happen, or cause things go better for us, when the truth of it is – we are stuck!

One thing that can cause us to be stuck in our walk or in our everyday lives can be that when we have accepted Jesus to be Lord of our lives; we felt free, and loved, and fulfilled.  Then life happens, we get busy, and before we know it, God has been pushed down on the list.  We don’t “have time” to read the Bible, to worship, to pray, to go to church, etc..  Somewhere along the way we revert back to our former way of living, our old way of thinking, our old habits.  We flit and we flutter and try as we might, we can’t get free.  We look in the mirror and realize we are stuck.  The Bible says, “you will know them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:16). 

It is imperative that we foster our relationship with the Lord by spending time in His Word, in prayer, and in worship, and in fellowship with other believers (church, Bible study, group meetings, etc.).  Then we learn the voice of the Spirit and when doubts and fears and the enemy try to derail us, the Spirit lets us know and we can rise up against it, we can call our brothers and sisters in Christ to pray with us.  It has been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.  This poor birdie was flitting and flapping and expecting to be set free.  But he was stuck!   you striving?  No matter what you do, nothing is working – are you stuck?  In the book, Praying The Word For Your Church, author Tiece L. King prays:  “Humbling myself before You as Your child, I ask, Father, that according to Your great richness, strengthen us with power through the Holy Spirit at the core of our being.  May Jesus Christ truly dwell in our hearts in all of His fullness.  May each of us break up the unplowed ground that yet remains in our hearts, that faith might grow and increase….May we receive power from the Holy Spirit to understand, with greater depth and meaning, Your immeasurable love for us expressed through Christ!  Help us in our weakness to understand this mystery in such a way that it changes us from the inside out.  May we be filled up with more of You.  Push out self-focused living that has taken up space in our hearts that belongs to You alone.  Replace it, I pray, with the fullness of Christ, that we might overflow with His love.  May we increasingly live and move and have our very being in Him…. In the name of Jesus, our Lord and Master. Amen“.