June 2025
“June Gloom”
Have you ever heard that saying before? Well, I have. I lived in Seattle WA for 7 years. June gloom comes as result of the weather being rainy yet still warm outside. It is kind of depressing because your mind and body know that it is summer, yet there hasn’t been a lot of sunshine for the ever popular lake trips and picnics.
It is easy for us to experience June gloom even here in the great state of Kansas. Half of the year is already gone and you may feel like you haven’t accomplished anything that you wanted to this year and it is half over. The weather turns hot and it wipes all of your energy away. Air conditioning is what you look forward to the most when getting to work or to the stores. The heat can drag you down.
Well, I have a solution! Read. Read your Bible. You will find that there are a lot of people in there who feel the way you do. There are stories of towers and floods and injustice and total destruction of cities. There is even a story about a blind man who has been blind since birth. But despite all of the ill feelings there is a happy ending to this book.
There is Jesus, God’s Son, who came to earth to take away all of our sins so that we may have eternal life with Him in heaven. He doesn’t promise that we will be free from all suffering, but that we will not be alone through it all. God promises to be with us always, even to the very end of the age. (Matthew 28:20)
Don’t let “June Gloom” get you down. You have a Jesus who loved you so much that He gave His life for you. He died and rose again so that you might have life.
And as Ephesians 2:8-9 reminds us: 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
God be with you this summer season
In His Service,
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