An Elephant Rides a Bicycle

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Originally uploaded by Greg Blosser.

Today marks the one year anniversary of our birth as a mission church. It has been an eventful year. It has been rich and rewarding and difficult and God continues to be faithful. It has felt many times like wrestling an octopus, or like we are an elephant riding a bicycle, making forward progress, yet ever so slowly, teetering and tottering, yet remaining suprisingly upright. We can feel the hand of our father on the back of the seat. We can hear his footsteps as he runs along side. Now little boys and girls eventually learn to balance themselves, and to pedal smoothly and swiftly down cul de sacs and side streets. Not so with elephants. We are not at all aerodynamic. Balance is not our gift. We do nothing swiftly or smoothly. Should our father ever remove his hand from the seat, we would surely crash. But he will not. That is his grace. We never out grow our need of it. In fact, the bigger this elephant gets, the more we'll need his steadying hand. Let's all pray for more grace for another year.