Multiplied in the Hands of God

Summary

I’ll bet many of you have had this experience- You roll into church on a Sunday morning- and maybe that day you’re late, frazzled, numb maybe, overwhelmed, detached, noncommittal, isolated, worried, stressed, depressed, exhausted, annoyed, angry, raw…

And then you put on your happy face and say, “hi, I’m good, how are you?” And slide into the row for worship.

Sometimes we can make it a whole Sunday like this. You get through worship without crying, coffee hour without telling the truth, and even Sunday school.

Others of us, on those days- we stay home.

It’s amazing how it’s possible to enter a community of people and feel so alone. And leave feeling the same way.

We might go to great lengths to seem like we always have it all together. But this is a feat not everyone can pull off. For some, their need, their humanity, their lack of control over the circumstances of their lives, is on full display. For many of us, we hide it if we can.