What It Means to Be Still
The lesson for this quarantine season feels very clear: The only way through is to go in - deeper and deeper, whatever may come. God is with us - never leaves us or forsakes us. I believe that. And I am also unsteady from time to time.
For me, it isn’t either “faith or fear.” It is that God longs for us so much that to live with God is to live with faith AND fear in a delicate dance. It is believing while we’re scared, anxious, and unsettled.
But how?
The One About A Wedding And A Pandemic
In a time of upheaval, we find light in the most peculiar of happenings.
I had to let a lovely couple, Ross and Vanessa, know that with the COVID-19 pandemic I couldn’t officiate their wedding in person. The venue they booked for their wedding had already cancelled, but we were in the midst of brainstorming other possibilities.
Then, other considerations emerged. An anticipated state-wide “stay at home” order. I recognized a need for all us wobbling humans to be wise instead of invoking our rights. Finally, closing of our church campuses to all non-essential activity decimated our creativity.
Or so we thought.
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