Bruce Staley

As we sat on the step in my living room the young man discussed his dilemma. He was currently employed in a major retail store and was considering a new vocation. After listening to his story I suggested that he was like the circus trapeze artist only in his case he was trying to hold on to both trapeze bars and the only way to release the tension and stress was to let go one bar. This all happened many years ago. More recently I sent an email to the "young man" now married with children and the senior pastor of an active regional church. I wrote, G'day, I'm reading Philip Yancey's Where Is God When It Hurts? and I came across this at the end of chapter 9, An analogy used by Paul Tournier came to mind...He said the Christian life resembles a trapeze act. You can swing on the bar, exercising and building muscles all you want. But if you want to improve and excel, you have to take risks. You have to let go, knowing that nothing is beneath you, and reach out for the

As we sat on the step in my living room the young man discussed his dilemma. He was currently employed in a major retail store and was considering a new vocation. After listening to his story I suggested that he was like the circus trapeze artist only in his case he was trying to hold on to both trapeze bars and the only way to release the tension and stress was to let go one bar. This all happened many years ago. More recently I sent an email to the "young man" now married with children and the senior pastor of an active regional church. I wrote, G'day, I'm reading Philip Yancey's Where Is God When It Hurts? and I came across this at the end of chapter 9, An analogy used by Paul Tournier came to mind...He said the Christian life resembles a trapeze act. You can swing on the bar, exercising and building muscles all you want. But if you want to improve and excel, you have to take risks. You have to let go, knowing that nothing is beneath you, and reach out for the