A Note from Pastor Lee
Ever wonder why the military uses the “May Day!” call to signal an emergency? According to Wikipedia, “The "mayday" procedure word was conceived as a distress call in the early 1920s by Frederick Stanley Mockford, officer-in-charge of radio at Croydon Airport, England. He had been asked to think of a word that would indicate distress and would easily be understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency. Since much of the air traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, he proposed the term "mayday", the phonetic equivalent of the French m'aidez ("help me") or m'aider (a short form of venez m'aider, "come [and] help me"). The term is unrelated to the holiday May Day.”
As we enter the month of May, we can issue a “mayday” call to God any time we find ourselves in trouble or need. He is on duty 24/7 and He hears our cries for help. Of course, we should not call out to God only when we are in trouble. He wants an ongoing conversation with us all the time. We have more reasons than we can count to praise God and thank God and bring our concerns before Him, and to ask Him to help others.
Is there something you need God’s help with today? Why do we try to fix things ourselves when His power and love can move us farther and better along than our own feeble efforts? – God is good, this May and always!
Yours in Christ,
Pastor Lee