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Under Construction, Week 8, Day 54

by David Joynt on October 03, 2019

Under Construction, Week 8, Day 54

JOHN 14:3 | And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.

MATTHEW 28:20b | And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.

This week I’ve watched separation anxiety in action.  As Valley Day School opens, parents place little ones in the care of our teachers.  Small hands are let go and small faces see mom or dad is leaving them behind.  There is, for a moment and sometimes longer, panic and distress.  But these two promises cover the entire span of our living and our dying.  Jesus does not leave us orphaned, but is
present with us through his spirit and he takes us to himself when our lives end.  Just as VDS parents return at the end of the day.

What has been your most anxious separation?

Were you the leaver or the left one?

 

Tags: anxiety, panic, orphan, separation, orphaned

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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