It’s a place where I’ve done a lot of meditating.  I’ve written sermons.  I’ve prayed through problems and solutions.  I’ve done church calendar planning.  I’ve even rehearsed through choir specials, including full-length Christmas programs.  I’ve done all that right there on that riding lawn mower while cutting grass or mulching leaves.  And this past weekend I thought about something that has turned into this week’s Pastor’s Heart.  On that lawn mower last weekend, I was trying to process all that was going on with the current health crisis.  Thinking about those suffering.  Hoping it would stay away from my family, church, friends, and community.  Considering ways to adequately minister during the changing atmosphere of COVID-19.  And, like you, wondering how long all this was going to last.  And then I began to look around me.  Literally.  I noticed the three Yoshino cherry trees in our yard were blooming and beautiful.  I spotted a couple of squirrels bouncing around the trees in the back.  Tina’s flowers and other plants were flourishing as usual.  Those pesky carpenter bees were buzzing around our deck again.  And the birds were there, looking for something to eat, gathering bits of straw for their spring nests, and singing away.  Spring is here and happening just as it does every year.  It’s a constant.  And that’s when my mind turned to the Ultimate Constant: God.  I think sometimes we focus so much on what’s happening in the moment that we completely miss what else is happening in the moment.  If you know what I mean.  So I hope this week you will take some time to watch the cherry trees blossom and the azaleas bloom.  Follow the squirrels as they dart around the treetops.  Listen to the birds as they sing; watch them as they carefully build their nests.  Fight the good fight with those carpenter bees and fire ant mounds.  But most of all, look to your unchanging God as your constant in this time of change. “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee.”