On Wednesday, I led Chapel services for our preschool students ages 2-4. Sixty-four little ones were packed into the seats in the front section of Rudy Chapel. I taught My God is So Great with hand motions, followed by a lesson on Samuel’s birth story, then did two more songs that were off-the-cuff. I was unable to do the lesson that I had planned because the sound system is now up and working, but the connection from the computer where I play music videos from YouTube was not. I had selected several and worked in some other video elements to my lesson plan for Chapel. I confess, I was frustrated in the moment that it would not work. I had spent more than an hour the day before trouble shooting what went wrong with the sound system in the first place. There seem to be more struggles than there are wins at the moment. Have you ever felt like that? Then as we sang this sweet simple song, “My God is so great, so strong, and so mighty, there’s nothing my God cannot do. The mountains are His, the rivers are His, the stars are His handiwork too….” God not only counts the stars, but God also created them. Problems like the sound system not working the way you think it will, become very small in light of our great, powerful, and loving Creator God. May God give you some perspective on your problems this week, too. God’s got this!
In Christ, Rev. Elyse Milligan Nielsen