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Wednesday Night Dinner 5:30 PM - 6:45 PM (back to top)
September 1st
Wednesday night dinner will resume in the fall. We greatly appreciated everyone’s support and patronage and hope to see you in the fall.

Food To Go
Check with Chef Eric to see if there are delicious homemade treats or other items for sale during Wednesday evening during Holy Week. You may call the kitchen or email Chef Love if to see if anything will be available.

Wednesday Night Classes (back to top)
September 1st

Wednesday night programs for adults and children will return this fall. Thank you for making this another spectacular season!

eDevotion (back to top)
September 1st

Just Let the Low-End Drag
 
While I was working with my Spiritual Director yesterday I was showered with so many golden nuggets it will take me weeks to even begin to get my head around half of them. I have focused my efforts today on the following nugget: "John," she said. "Sometimes when you are driving a tobacco truck, you just have to let the low-end drag." She went on to explain that you could spend hours trying to balance the load of a tobacco truck just right. Occasionally, this might keep the truck from dragging quite as much as it would if you just threw everything in without thinking. Like the farmer, sometimes we don't have hours to spend trying to balance our loads. As a result, there will be occasions when we drag on the rough parts of the road.

I don't know how many of you are recovering hillbillies like myself, but something about what she said spoke to me on a much deeper level than the other ways I have heard the same message. It spoke to the part of me that doesn't tolerate not being able to accomplish a task to perfection: the part of me that always wants to do better. It is so much easier for me to forgive the sweaty, dusty, tobacco farmer for letting that low-end drag than it is for me to forgive myself for not spending enough time on a class or with my family. I don't think the farmer takes that truck for granted. I think he just grits his teeth with every pothole in the road and prepares for the rough ride ahead. The miracle for me is that the farmer I imagine knows that the low-end is going to drag and has simply made peace with that.

One very important lesson we can learn about God is that we are not Him. Our efforts to be perfect will always come up short. We cannot keep the low-end from dragging. What we can do is avoid thinking that if we just worked a little bit harder, or balanced things a little bit better, we could stop the grinding. Each of us is called to find Sabbath times in our life where we can lighten the load enough to stop the constant drag. For all of the other times in our life, we should accept that we do care; we are trying, but that we are not God. We just need to let the low-end drag.

The Reverend John Porter-Acee

Choirs (back to top)
St. Cecilia Choir for Girls 3rd thru 5th Grade
4:00 - 5:00 PM
Choir Room

Discovery Chorus for Pre K thru K
4:30 - 5:00 PM
Choir Library

St. Francis Choir for boys and girls 1st and 2nd grade
5:15 - 5:45 PM
Choir Library

Christ Church Singers for boys and girls 6th Grade thru 12th grade
5:15 - 7:00 PM
Choir Room

Further details please contact Chris Brayne, Director of Music, at braynec@christchurchcharlotte.org or 704-714-6942.