Uplook - March 16, 2024

Dear Saints,

Warm greetings on this beautiful sunny Saturday.  We have had the privilege of living in several different locations over my years of being a pastor.  They have ranged from places whose average number of sunny days was 277 per year and average annual rainfall was about 12 inches (Woodlake, CA)  to here in Seattle where the average number of sunny days is 152 per year and the average annual rainfall is about 40 inches.   Possibly in the middle of those two extremes was our time in Medford, OR (also our original hometown) with an average of 195 sunny days per year and average annual rainfall of nearly 20 inches.  We used to joke about how the people in Southern California (I suspect Arizona as well) think they “own the sun.”  I remember when we first moved there, someone in an office rose to open the windows during a rainstorm.  The children got all excited about worms on the sidewalks, etc.  I remember responding with “Where I’m from rain is not an ‘event’ but normal life”.   Over the years we have lived in small towns and in large cities and have discovered literally the meaning of learning to be content in whatever STATE we are in5020202020Recent