We know the Bible stories of the disciples being in a boat during a storm, Jesus is with them sleeping in the back, or walking on the water to them. The point of both of those stories is that Jesus is with us in the storms we find ourselves in. I read a devotion recently called “carry on”. With permission from the source, I offer it here:

Daily, we get up and get in our boats and row through the order of events. We do this without thought. This pattern prepares us for whatever comes. If the day brings us something new, we are ready to keep rowing and continue fulfilling our call of duty and service. It is a call to carry on. We’re trained and practiced so- ready or not- we follow through on our mission. We set our sights ahead to the shore we want to reach.

God said, “I am with you to the end of the age”, and we must carry those words with us in the boat daily as we row, anticipating change, taking on challenges. Just as God is with us, we are to be with each other to help support and encourage them. Carry on is a promise to uphold and share. We carry on, row the boat in the same direction, embrace the challenges and know that Jesus is with us.

There are several boats at St. Paul that could use some additional rowers. Helping with worship,or Godly Play are ways that we carry on in service.