Author Archive: Frank Christman

Summer Food Drive for Irving Cares

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Summer is the busiest time for food banks, and Irving Cares is experiencing a 30% increase in the requests for food assistance. They are seeing an average of over 800 families that need food. With school out, families that depend on meals being provided at school now have hungry kids at home all day, often with little food. So, we at St. Mark’s are responding with our Father’s Day Food Blessing! All proceeds collected between June 17th and July 1st will go to benefit needy families at Irving Cares. We ask that you keep these families in your prayers. Blessings! Wende

Are You Afraid To Fly ?

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In Henri Nouwen’s book, Sabbatical Journeys, he writes about some friends who were trapeze artists and called themselves “The Flying Roudellas.” One thing they told Nouwen was that there’s a very special relationship between the flyer and the catcher on the trapeze. As you might imagine, this relationship is important – especially to the flyer. When the flyer is swinging high above the crowd on the trapeze, the moment comes when he must let go. He arcs out into the air and his job is to remain as still as possible waiting for the strong hands of the catcher to pluck him from the air. The trapeze artist told Nouwen, “the flyer must never try to catch the catcher. He must wait in patient and absolute trust. The catcher will catch him, but he must wait.”

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him. Psalm 37:7

I love you, St Markians, Fr Ash+