“We find ourselves in a place we never expected to be, in a situation we would never have chosen for ourselves, stumbling along a path we had not foreseen.”

“So we could read this story of Eutychus sleeping while Paul is preaching as a much-needed exhortation not to fall asleep in our faith, not to contract a spiritual amnesia wherein we forget about God for long periods of our day or even of our lives – or even something as basic as not to forget to come to worship on Sundays.”

But the truth is that we do sometimes feel discouraged in the life of faith – it is a normal part of the ebb and flow of ordinary discipleship.

“They have upset the political order by proclaiming that there is a King higher and greater than mighty Caesar in Rome – a King whose name is Jesus.”

“we walk by faith and not by sight.”