It's important to remember:
church doesn't close. Ever.
We may need to temporarily stop our face-to-face, full-on-peace-passing, communion-by-intinction,
and offering-of-the-plates,
but the church -
the body of Christ -
is a 24/7/365 reality.
It's lived, around the world,
and in our homes;
it acts, when our hearts reach out;
it keeps going,
wherever there is one disciple of Jesus,
or two, or three -
living the Way we've been taught.
And, with Paul, I'd like to remind you
there is nothing -
there is NOTHING -
not a single thing -
not in the sky above, or the earth below,
not powers, nor principalities,
not things seen, or unseen -
nothing in all creation
that can separate that creation
from God's love in Christ.
We are the church.
Always.
And all ways.