A Flyers Trust

Julie and I love to catch an old movie on occasion so we recently watched "The Story of Three Loves" from 1953. The movie was broken up into three vignettes or love stories with the last one focusing on trapeze artist Kirk Douglas. In the story he was the flyer expert trying to teach a newcomer Pier Angeli how to become a flyer with no fear.

In teaching her this art he explained that there is a very special relationship between the flyer and the catcher. As the flyer is swinging high above the crowd, the moment comes when she lets go of the trapeze, when she arcs into the air. For that moment, which must feel like an eternity, the flyer is suspended in nothingness. It is too late to reach back for the trapeze. There is no going back now. She cannot accelerate the catch. In that moment, her job is to be as still and motionless as she can.

"The flyer must never catch the catcher," Kirk Douglas told her. "You must wait in absolute trust. the catcher will catch you. But you must wait. Your job is not to flail about in anxiety. In fact if you do it could kill you. Your job is to be still. To wait. And to wait is the hardest work of all."

You and I may be in that vulnerable moment right now - we have to let go of what God has called us to let go of, but we can't feel God's other hand catching us yet. Will I wait in absolute trust? Will I be patient?

Waiting requires a flyers trust.