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During a past sermon, Pastor Sarah shared a story about her basketball team that faced numerous trials and tribulations, but still managed to give their best. The team consisted of only five players (see the "proof" below), but they did not let that diminish their spunk. Pastor Sarah encouraged us to take inspiration from this story and apply it to our own lives:
'We gave it our all, and at the end of the game, the score was 11-88. Sometimes life is like that. One thing after another comes at you… the bigger girls from the other school come in rested and fresh… Tina sprains her ankle… and the scoreboard just keeps looking worse.
I think about Jesus’ words in Matthew, "The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house..." yes, "the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock." In Philippians, the apostle Paul describes a way of being still, of having peace, even when anxiety builds, even when our lives are like this game.'
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