Jesus Is Calling You Back to the Day Fear Keeps Taking Away
Chapter 1: The Cheer He Heard Too Late The crack of the bat pulled him back into the ballpark, but not soon enough to see what had happened. Everyone around him was standing. A boy in a blue uniform was racing toward second base while his teammates shouted from the dugout. The father rose from the aluminum bleachers and clapped because everyone else was clapping. Then his son looked toward him, searching for his face in the crowd, and the father understood that he had missed the best hit of the season. He had been staring at the grass beyond the fence, replaying a short meeting from Friday afternoon in which his manager had said the company needed to make “difficult decisions.” If you have ever been physically present while your mind was living inside a frightening future, this Christian encouragement for facing uncertainty with Jesus was made for the place where you are standing. His son reached second base, dusted off his pants, and smiled toward the bleachers. The father smi...