Topics:<\/b> Agnosticism; Dependence on God; Faith; Fear; Help from God; Trust<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Psalm 23:1\u20134; Matthew 6:9; 28:20; 1 Peter 5:7<\/p>\n
Trisha McFarland stopped on a family hike across the Appalachians to go to the bathroom. In trying to catch up with her family, she found herself on the wrong trail, lost and alone. She sat down, closed her eyes, and tried to pray for rescue. But praying was hard. She said, \u201cOur Father,\u201d and it came out of her mouth flat and uncomforting.<\/p>\n
She couldn\u2019t remember discussing spiritual matters with her mother, but she had asked her father not a month before if he believed in God.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll tell you what I believe in,\u201d said Larry McFarland. \u201cI believe in the Subaudible. Do you remember when we lived on Fore Street? Do you remember how the electric baseboard units would hum, even when they weren\u2019t heating?\u201d<\/p>\n
Trisha shook her head.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s because you got used to it,\u201d the father said. \u201cBut take my word, Trisha, that sound was always there. Even in a house where there aren\u2019t baseboard heaters, there are noises. The fridge goes on and off. The traffic goes by outside. We hear those things all the time, so most of the time we don\u2019t hear them at all. They become \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSubaudible,\u201d Trisha said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPree-cisely. I don\u2019t believe in a God who marks the fall of every bird, who records all of our sins in a big golden book and then judges us when we die. But I believe there has to be something. Some sort of insensate force for the good.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Subaudible,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou got it.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, here\u2019s this girl in the woods, lost and sensing that there must be something more. Then she remembers her baseball hero, the great closer of the Boston Red Sox, Tom \u201cFlash\u201d Gordon. He pulls out miraculous saves for the Sox, and when he wins, he points his finger to the sky, giving credit to a personal God who has revealed himself to the world in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
After nine days of being bug-bitten, scared, cut, sick from drinking bad water and eating poisonous berries, Trisha finally pleads to a personal God to bring her out of the woods.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease God, help me find the path,\u201d she says to the God of Tom Gordon, not her father\u2019s Subaudible. She needs a God who is really there, one you can point to when and if you get the save. \u201cPlease, God, please, help me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Based on Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon<\/i> (Scribner, 1999)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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