This episode is a reset of one which originally aired in September of 2021. That was a heavy time, and this, a consideration of pastoral playfulness, seemed particularly necessary. That necessity, sadly, remains.

There is so much that can weigh us down, that we forget that God has created us for joy. There is much that tries to extinguish that impulse, to suppress it and obscure it, but now and then, it’s good for us to fan it into flame and just find something that is fun to do and do it, simply for the fun of it. 

It’s worth thinking about. 

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Though it may sound like it, this pastor’s name is not a pseudonym. The Reverend Willard E. Michael was while Barb and I were students at Michigan State University the pastor of East Lansing Trinity Church in East Lansing, Michigan. He is one of the reasons I am today a pastor.

Calvin Seerveld, Rainbows for the Fallen World (Canada: Toronto Tuppence Press, 1980), pp. 52, 53.

As reported by the Washington Post journalist Jill Suttie.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/08/02/daydream-mind-wander-happiness

The OTR song comes from the 2005 album Drunkard’s Prayer. 

Marilyn McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, Second Edition (United States: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2021), p.191.

Genesis 1:31

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