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Early in the morning of June
6, Alan Barlow, a member of St. Paul’s, embarked on what he calls Alan’s
Journey. He left Heceta Beach, Oregon,
with a stroller packed with survival equipment, and began running across the
United States – a total of 3,200 miles to his destination of Rye Beach here in
New Hampshire. Every step he takes over
the next five months or so is for the benefit of St. Paul’s food pantry – and
you can follow Alan’s progress, and add your support, through St. Paul’s website.
The idea of a cross-country
run came to Alan literally out of the blue one day – and he has been planning and
training for the past eight years. As
soon as his family and friends realized he was serious, they started trying to
talk him out of it – but Alan is certain that he is doing what he is called to
do. He is certain that God is at the
root of this amazing journey, and there is no way he can choose not to do it –
not even when the people he loves more than anything might beg him to
reconsider.
God gives us the power to do
greater things than we may ever have thought possible – even when those things
may go against the wishes of people we love and respect. These are hard choices to make but we know
beyond doubt when we have chosen the right way.
And when God calls us to journey new and unexplored paths, we can be
sure of God’s strength and peace and continued presence as we obey that call.
O God, from whom all good proceeds:
Grant that by your inspiration we may think those
things that are right,
and by your merciful guiding may do them…
(Collect for the Second
Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 5)
Alan with his supply stroller
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