The Day of Preparation

Saturday. We are ahead of most of you who will read this blog. It is Saturday night and tomorrow will be the Lord's Day. It is a joy to serve here in Kenya as a teacher and as chaplain to 350 girls at Ringa High School. The senior class has one more week of testing to determine whether they will go onto University or vocational training. Tomorrow is the day of Worship to receive His gifts in the Divine Service in Word and Sacrament. Tomorrow we will commemorate All Saints Day remembering those faithful who have gone before us in the faith. There are many that come to my mind of those who I had served for the last 9 1/2 years in Oroville, California and are now with the Lord. But tomorrow we celebrate the foretaste of the feast to come. What a joyous day to give us strength from the assaults of the the flesh, the world and the evil one. But our Lord is greater...greater than our sin and the one who roars like a lion. Our Lord has is the Victor and in Him we rest in true peace.