Crash...

June 16th, 2023

Leigh-Ann, Dallas, and Sophie left last night to travel to St. Louis for Sophia’s final club soccer tournament. Her next games will be in college.

Alexa, Isaiah, Ian, and I stayed home! 😊

After eating some dinner, they took off and headed East on I-70. We jumped in a different vehicle and headed south toward the pool. When we arrived at the pool, it was closed due to a swim meet so we called to ask the name of another pool we could crash and they told us they would call us right back, they had just been in a literal crash.

A few seconds later my phone rang, and Leigh-Ann said they had been rear-ended. It was not their fault and everyone was ok, but the car was definitely damaged.

My mind started racing….I wondered how bad the damage was on the car…. ”was it drivable or should we trade cars?” I wanted to make sure they got the insurance information from the “Rear-Ender.” Also, “Were they still on I-70, or had they gotten off the road?” “Were the police there?”

So many questions…

We started driving towards them since we were about 30 miles away and they had a long trip ahead. We wondered if we would make it to the pool…we didn’t 😊. Also, we were very low on gas. We had planned to stop on the way home. As the situation continued to unfold, it became difficult to make well-thought-out decisions instantly.

We decided to meet up at a Costco where we could gas up our vehicle and then they could continue on their trip. We wanted to get to them as quickly as possible and we decided to go for it, but we didn’t tell them we had more miles to drive than we had gas in the tank. We decided to take the risk and this time it worked in our favor….we made it.

I’m sure you’ve felt the pressure of making tough decisions in a limited amount of time. Life can throw more at us than we are ready to handle for sure.

This Sunday, we continue our sermon series through Galatians, “Deep Faith in the Gospel of Grace.” We will study Galatians 5:1-15, where Paul contrasts the difference between frantic performance and patient faith. Even as Christians, we can fall into the trap of attempting to make God happy by what we do. Often this only makes matters worse. Together we will discover that even during difficult times we will experience peace when we settle into a life of patient faith.

I hope to see you this Sunday at New Life CityChurch at 8:00, 9:15 (Full KidCity available), or 10:45 am, or you can watch the Livestream on YouTube (Like and Subscribe) or Facebook at 9:15 am. Additionally, we are also publishing our sermons on Spotify.

Have a great weekend and stay safe,

Troy