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Make my joy complete (Philippians 2 (Make my joy complete, Be one in…

- - - - “One day, I was sitting with Rodleigh, the leader of the troupe, in his caravan, talking about flying. He said, ‘As a flyer, I must have complete trust in my catcher. The public might think that I am the great star of the trapeze, but the real star is Joe, my catcher. He has to be there for me with split-second precision and grab me out of the air as I come to him in the long jump.’
      - ‘How does it work?’ I asked.
      - ‘The secret,’ Rodleigh said, ‘is that the flyer does nothing and the catcher does everything. When I fly to Joe, I have simply to stretch out my arms and hands and wait for him to catch me and pull me safely over the apron behind the catchbar.’
      - ‘You do nothing!’ I said, surprised.
      - ‘Nothing,’ Rodleigh repeated. ‘The worst thing the flyer can do is to try to catch the catcher. I am not supposed to catch Joe. It’s Joe’s task to catch me. If I grabbed Joe’s wrists, I might break them, or he might break mine, and that would be the end for both of us. A flyer must fly, and a catcher must catch, and the flyer must trust, with outstretched arms, that his catcher will be there for him.’
      - “When Rodleigh said this with so much conviction, the words of Jesus flashed through my mind: ‘Father into your hands I commend my Spirit.’ Dying is trusting in the catcher. To care for the dying is to say, ‘Don’t be afraid. Remember that you are the beloved child of God. He will be there when you make your long jump. Don’t try to grab him; he will grab you. Just stretch out your arms and hands and trust, trust, trust.’ “
      - My prayer this week is to trust, trust, trust. Trust the Catcher!
      - The next day, I returned to the circus to see them again and introduced myself to them as one of their great fans. They invited me to attend their practice sessions, gave me free tickets, asked me to dinner, and suggested I travel with them for a week in the near future. I did, and we became good friends.
- - - - Compare / contrast
      - Most expensive perfume in the world
      - Grapefruit spritz
- - - - Selfish ambition
      - Self importance
      - Self centredness
  - - - His legal status
        
        Utterly humbled himself - to the point of letting go his life
        
        Suffered injustice and died as a criminal
        
        His natural status
        
        He climbed down the ladder of achievement to reach us
        
        He was ambitious and determined for our sakes and not for himself
        
        His social status
        
        Jesus climbed down the social ladder to reach us
        
        King of Kings and Lord of Lords made himself nothing to serve us
        
        Opposite of vain conceit and self-importance
- - - - Wrapped in entourage
      - Wrapped in bomb-proof packaging
    - - Not fame, fortune and success
    - - Not nudist/naturist etc