Dear Friends,
Writer Kate Bowler recently shared this story:
When I was 5-years-old our family went on one of those gondolas up a mountain in British Columbia, Canada, and just as our cable car suspended over the deepest part of the valley below, it stopped moving. It swayed at first, and then all went still. Nobody spoke. Except for a little voice, (and yes it was mine), that asked my parents, “How do we know this is on tight?”
That’s the question when life gets really scary, isn’t it? When you are dangled over the abyss and there’s nothing between you and… the thing no one is saying except the little kid who says what everyone is thinking: “How do we know this is on tight?”
That question “how do we know this is on tight?” is one we pose when life gets tough, when situations or circumstances scare us or when we are about to head into the unknown. We likely ask it in other ways: How will I get through this? Do I have the strength to face this? Can we handle going through this?
The answer of course is a resounding “yes.” And yet, sometimes we need to know what that strength looks like or where it will come from. This Sunday we will talk about strength that comes when we least thought we had it by looking at these two well-loved passages: Psalm 121 and Philippians 4:13.
I hope you will join me for beautiful music (from our choir, worship team, and VBS campers), prayers together, and time to consider the strength beyond our understanding.
