One of my favorite Gospel moments concerns the paralytic carried to Jesus by four friends. THANK GOD FOR THOSE FRIENDS!
Gotta be honest - sometimes I can't lift my eyes to pray. I've got nothing but a paralyzed heart weighed down with every care. If someone said...
Gotta be honest - sometimes I can't lift my eyes to pray. I've got nothing but a paralyzed heart weighed down with every care. If someone said...
..."Run to Jesus", I'd just laugh at them and say, "Hey, I'm not running anywhere! I can't even kneel." Sometimes we're just empty - we can't get to where we need to go. Friends have to carry us. Sometimes its the faith of others that gets us through.
Sometimes our faith is useful to carry someone we love.
Some days we are carrying others and some days we're the ones being carried. On both days, we aren't alone.
So one of the biggest lies we hear is 'You're the only one.' Well, you're not. CS Lewis wrote that friendship...
Some days we are carrying others and some days we're the ones being carried. On both days, we aren't alone.
So one of the biggest lies we hear is 'You're the only one.' Well, you're not. CS Lewis wrote that friendship...
...begins when someone says, "What? You too?" Let's admit the times we can do no more; the times when we're too weak to stand, walk, crawl, kneel, speak, pray, sing, or even scream. And when we do admit it, let's accept the four friends who will carry us all the way to Jesus...
tearing up roofs along the way to get us where we need to be. Those are the friends we need - and the friends we need to be.
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