It has been said, and I certainly echo the sentiment, that May is the new December. Between the end of school activities, Mothers’ Day and Memorial Weekend, May has become just as jam packed on our calendars as December.

 

That’s why it is good to let the land go fallow for a season.

 

Coming from the farming country of southern Minnesota, I know how farmers periodically, for a season, would not plant on a portion of their field. They are letting the land go fallow.

 

While that season is a time of rest, it is not an idle time in the sense that nothing is happening. During that fallow season, the land rejuvenates itself, deepening its fertility, increasing its minerals to produce a greater future yield. Without this fallow season, the soil can dry up and become less and less productive.

 

The church needs that fallow time as well. Sunday School will end on May 18. The summer worship schedule will begin on May 25. Wednesdays Ablaze will come to a conclusion on May 14. Those programs will take a rest.  Fallow time.

 

But as those programs enter into a fallow time, others ramp up to take their place during the summer.

 

Quillows will be celebrated on June 1

VBS will be held June 16-20

The Xperience Home Concert will be on June 22

Freedom School will begin on June 23

The Youth Mission Trip will happen July 28-August 1

The Musicals, Matilda and The Jungle Book, will be held July 29-August 1

Confirmation is on August 24

 

As farmers rotate their land, allowing some to go fallow for a season while others grow crops, we do the same here at Christ Lutheran. During this time at the church, we enjoy and celebrate those programs that rest while participating and encouraging the new ones that take their place. It’s part of the changing seasons.

 

But whether it is farming or ministry, the purpose of the fallow time is the same—rejuvenation, rest and revitalization for a greater harvest next season.

 

I pray that you also, as you get through the many activities of May, find that time to let your heart go fallow for a season to deepen your faith walk for an even greater harvest yet to come.

 

Peace,

Pastor Scott