Taking the leap
I often am moved or humbled or challenged by sermons at our church , but tonight's message especially spoke to me. (When the sermon video gets posted online, I'll link it here!) John Ortberg spoke on letting go and trusting God - a message that sounds so cliche that it seems impossible to be touched by it. Yet I was caught by surprise by how it touched a very vulnerable part of me - my struggle with fear. You see, he recorded the sermon at a gym called "Circus Center," a place where people can take classes from trapeze artists. As John explained why he decided to present the sermon there, he quotes Henri Nouwen: "The Flying Rodleighs are trapeze artists who perform in the German circus Simoneit-Barum. When the circus came to Freiburg two years ago, my friends Franz and Reny invited me and my father to see the show. I will never forget how enraptured I became when I first saw the Rodleighs move through the air, flying and catching as elegant dancers....
