What's in Your Forecast?

March 2, 2025
 
Reflections from the Heart of Allan Redenius
When I was in 7th and 8th grade, I delivered the early morning Des Moines Register newspaper.  Up before 6:00 AM, hop on the bicycle, then bee-line it to the park bench where the newspapers could always be found for delivery.  Zing around town in rapid fashion to complete my route before school started.  I don't know how I inherited that job, but more than once I tried to quit, but my dad said, “It's good for you to have a job and some responsibility.”  In the long run, as with most things, he was right.
 
I guess I should have been thankful for this paper route, which I started at 6:00 AM.  At least it was a couple of hours later than starting at 4:00 AM to deliver milk around town from the Creamery.  I can still hear those milk jars clanging together as I carried them, two in each hand, to the milk boxes scattered around town.
 
It was there, in the quiet of the early morning, that I began to make weather observations and predict the weather.  A breeze from the east was a sure indicator of rain to follow.  If there was no dew in the grass, it generally meant rain ahead as well.  Green, stormy clouds meant, hail is a-comin’.    My weather forecasts, back then, were just about as successful as weather forecasts today, about 50%.  To think I didn't have computers, radars, nor a degree in meteorology.  Have you ever thought that those who forecast the weather are themselves in a prophetless business?  What the prophets of old forecasted, always came to be.  Not so with the weathermen today.
 
My experience and observations of my youth still compel me to be watchful of weather indicators today.  Now my observations see a new storm on the horizon.  I'm not sure as to the date when the Lord might return and rescue us from that soon approaching storm.  I still get up early every morning and ask of the Lord, “Is this the day?”  One thing I know about the weather.  You need to be ready for whatever comes.  Are you ready for the certain return of Jesus in the not-too-distant future?
 
Keeping an eye on the Eastern sky.  It is there we will first see Jesus walking on the clouds coming for us.
 
Pastor Allan  
 
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