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- God bless you, Sister. - Thank you.
I wanna tell you a story.
A cargo ship sank one night. It caught fire and went down,
and only this one sailor survived.
He found a lifeboat, rigged a sail,
and being of a nautical discipline
turned his eyes to the heavens and read the stars.
He set a course for his home, and, exhausted, fell asleep.
Clouds rolled in,
for the next 20 nights, he could no longer see the stars.
He thought he was on course, but there was no way to be certain.
And as the days rolled on, and the sailor wasted away,
he began to have doubts.
Had he set his course right?
Was he still going on towards his home?
Or was he horribly lost and doomed to a terrible death?
No way to know.
The message of the constellations,
had he imagined it because of his desperate circumstance?
Or had he seen truth once...
Straighten up!
and now had to hold on to it without further reassurance?
There are those of you in church today
who know exactly the crisis of faith I describe,
and I wanna say to you,
doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.
When you are lost, you are not alone.
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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