“God’s willingness is not in question. Your ability to receive is. You can be surrounded by opportunity and still miss it - not because you are unworthy, but because you are closed off inside.
Receiving demands an open posture. The gate is yours to open. The time to act is now.”
“Silence the Noise”, page 22
Jorge Parrott 2025
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Steve Martin, Jorge Parrott
Jorge Parrott, CMM School of Theology
The Hebrew year 5786 - the year of transition. Painting by James Nesbit
We Need Others
Men need friendships. For far too long we have been made to think that we can do all on our own. To be the one who can fix anything with no help from others.
I used to think that.
My wife and I needed more space for our growing family with four kids. We decided to add more footage to our East Lansing, Michigan home around 1983. My brother-in-law Bob Smith, a contractor, had a construction crew who did the work.
Before Laurie’s parents were coming from Illinois for a visit, I was saving pallets from my work and then nailing them down as a new floor in the attic, to make more storage space.
My foot missed the flooring joist. It went through the ceiling in the new addition family room below.
I could not fix that. And the Lord clearly spoke to me, “You cannot do all things by yourself. You need others.”
“And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 1 Corinthian 12.21, NASB
I got the help I needed to repair that new ceiling. I am thankful for those who have skills that we do not process.
We need others. We cannot walk alone.
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
