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It's been 3 months since my last eConnect and I apologize for that. Truth be told, I'm having a difficult time keeping up with the challenges at church with the new reality of a smaller staff. Not that I'm complaining...I am extremely grateful for my call and for the opportunity to be in ministry with you. Its just that new realities require new habits and new patterns of managing time and hopefully, I'm now beginning to get a better grasp on things.
With all that said, I've been thinking lately about the idea of faith being a journey. This isn't a new thought for me nor is it a new thought, I'm guessing, for many of you. And yet, for how often we use the image of "journey" when speaking of our faith, I think I have an easier time calling faith a journey than I do living faith as a journey.
My recent trip to Israel and other countries reminded me that traveling is not a normal state for me. Traveling takes me out of my comfort zone and fills me with worries and anxiety that I don't normally have.
If this idea holds true, then it means that whenever I allow my faith experience to become a journey then it also will take me out of my comfort zone and at times fill me with worry and anxiety. It's hard to become comfortable with the idea of life as a journey for it means that reality is always changing. Ultimately, to live faith as a journey means that Jesus must become my "home base". If I can find security and continuity in Jesus, well then, maybe I can be set free to encounter any new reality that comes my way.
How about you? Is the idea of faith as a journey comfortable for you? Do you travel well? Do you enjoy the idea of not knowing what each new day will hold? In so many ways, it sounds exciting...and yet, if I'm really honest, it leaves me just a bit afraid.
Dear Jesus, bid me to follow you that I may leave it all behind for the sake of your Kingdom.
Pastor Tony
tony@cantonlutheran.net
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