I want to tell you a story a cargo ship
sank one night it caught fire and went
down and only this one sailor survived
he found a lifeboat rigged to sail and
being on a nautical discipline turned
his eyes to the heavens and read the
Stars he set a course for his home and
exhausted fell asleep clouds rolled in
for the next 20 nights he could no
longer see the stars he thought he was
on course but there was no way to be
certain and as the day's rolled on and
the Sailor wasted away he began to have
doubts had he set his course right was
he still going on towards his home or
was he horribly lost and doomed to a
terrible death no way to know the
message of the constellations had he
imagined it because of his desperate
circumstance or had he seen truth once
and now had to hold on to it without
further reassurance there are those of
you in church today you know exactly the
crisis of faith I described and I want
to say to you doubt can be a bond as
powerful and sustaining as certainty
when you are lost you are not alone
and the name of the Father the Son and
the Holy Ghost amen
you