This is from the movie “Facing the Giants”, about an underdog team and a coach nobody believes in. But this scene is about the Christian life. Because we are all doing a death crawl. We are all carrying burdens on our backs. We are all blindly pushing forward, not knowing how far we must go or when we will reach the end. We all experience pain and exhaustion and the threat of utter failure and defeat. We are all prone to self-doubt and a need to give up the fight, to let the giants overwhelm us. My aunt, married to my mom’s oldest brother is 54. She just had major surgery and has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer that has progressed and spread. What was abdominal pain is now cancer. I can’t imagine what is going through my Aunt’s and Uncle’s and cousins’ heads this weekend. Fear. Grief. Worry. Anger. I have seen it. Sometimes ministry feels like a war zone, simply going through life with others in all of their ups and downs.
