Anything but invincible.

College students are not really invincible, yet we all still like to kid ourselves. Something can hit really close to home (like a friend getting cancer), and we are reminded for a little while again that we are mere mortals, but we walk once again into the delusion that nothing can touch us. We even joke about it. The next event to remind us how wrong we are comes along, and we just continue the cycle. How come it's so easy to forget? The events are usually new situations for all of us, especially because it happens away from home, and the fear of the unfamiliar kicks in.

I was struck the other day in New Testament class by a passage that is helping a lot right now. I hope it helps somebody else, too.

And the Holy Spirit helps us in our distress. For we don't even know what we should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will. And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. [Romans 8: 26-28]

~"Worry looks around, sorry looks back, faith looks up." [an email]~