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We’re glad you’re here! Rev. Santos will be providing a new Blog Entry each month. Note that the January 2021 date is the date this page was created.

From Pastor Santos, February 17, 2025

The picture seemed extremely gloomy, from any way to look at it. There were the people of Israel right in the middle of the Crisis, yes, with capital C. They had just left Egypt in a glorious way and Pharaoh had just changed his mind, sending his army to put the people of Israel back into captivity. That was the picture in the rearguard. The situation ahead was just as critical: the Red Sea threatening as a monster. What to do? Where to go? There was no other way to look at it: the end had come.

The truth is that moments like that come to each of us. Moments of a total lack of alternatives which look like a huge dead-end. These are the moments where life seems to conspire against us and mockingly yells at us that we have failed and that everything is over for us.

When such circumstances come to us, let us remember that all is not really lost. God is greater, always greater than any of our crises. For those who have entrusted their lives to the God of life, surrender is not an alternative. Suddenly a miracle happened. The Red Sea itself was left open for the people to pass through. Later, just as Pharaoh’s chariots were in the middle of the road, the jaws of the Sea closed, leaving the pursuing army deadly enclosed within it.

In moments when the impossible surrenders to the will of God and the Red Sea that harasses us prostrates itself reverently before its Creator; when the unrighteous forces that haunt us suddenly cease to be, it is not just a great achievement. That is an Immense blessing, yes, with capital I.

Currently passing through your own Red Sea? If so, this is a story to keep handy: Exodus 14.

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From Pastor Santos, January 21, 2025

Psalms are a mosaic of all human emotions and all of them are represented along the psaltery. Then, there are praises psalms, trust psalms, royal psalms and … imprecation psalms (those that curse) and also psalms of the dark night of the soul (the ones of total desperation). Fascinating! Each one of the psalms faithfully depicts the circumstances of each one of us; even here and now. When some can be in a victorious and joyous time, some others can be in distress or with low, really low levels of confidence. That’s the way it is. To believe that all who are a regular parishioner, never experiences moments of desolation and anguish, is not only a mistake, it’s a huge fallacy. Because we have walked with all those shoes in different moments of our life; the shoes of sadness, desolation or loneliness (or maybe we are wearing those shoes right now) we identify so well with the Psalms.

Allow me to make a confession. I am a natural born desperate. Yes, I’m a minister. Yes I wear a stole every Sunday morning as one of the symbols of the ministerial office and I am a natural born desperate. I just don’t have the waiting gene in my genetical package or at least, if I have it, it is severely damaged. Psalm 40, one of the all-times favorites, begins saying “I waited patiently for the Lord.” Well, in my Bible, the one that I study on a regular basis, I wrote the prefix “im” in front of the word patiently, so my Bible says, “impatiently I waited for the Lord.”!

Although I don’t feel too comfortable encouraging you to patiently wait. I certainly, however, can invite you to either patiently or impatiently keep waiting on the Lord!

Why don’t we wait together?
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