Introduction

When Kirsten held it together until the elevator's doors closed in the hospital and then she wailed, I had one question for God. Help me find myself in the story. And God has been faithful to answer. In COVID lockdown, it was the prayers of the imprisoned apostle Paul as I tried to learn what it meant to lead a church that I was still trusting was very much alive but could no longer see and relate to interpersonally. It was Joshua on the banks of the Jordan, a miracle God had done before only this time it wasn't about deliverance but about inheritance. The devastating news about Amos, it was Psalm 20, an old prayer of David's one