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Dear Gateway West,

Faith can be fun.  That's what my son reminded about last night.

We took the whole family plus a couple of friends to the pool at the YMCA.  For obvious safety reasons, Amanda and I tend to hang out with the littlest of our kids, which doesn't always make for the most enjoyable of evenings.  I confess that sometimes, I'd rather be rough housing with the older ones in the deep end but you can't always get what you want.

But I digress.  Last night, Joshua, our just turned 3 year old was demanding my attention.  In order to have some fun, I tried to get him to jump off the edge of the pool and I'd catch him.  At first, he was very reluctant but after a few tries, he realized that dad was going to catch him every time and bring him back up out of the water.  Let's just say that the rest of my evening was spent retrieving him out of the water over and over and over again.  He was having a blast.  He'd try to find a place to jump in where I wasn't even close.  He made a game out of testing me.

Now, you and I both know there's a line between being stupid and having faith.  I'll let you figure out that line between you and God but let me remind you that trusting God can be a whole lot of fun.  There should be a level of peace in our hearts when we go beyond our limits knowing that our God is there for us.  Sometimes our faith is tested by the choices of others but when is the last time you intentionally had some fun by putting your faith into action and jumping into the arms of your heavenly father.

Just something to think about...  Let me know how you are having some fun in your faith.

Hey, I encourage you to come and worship with us tomorrow morning.  We have a special guest teacher.  Rick Duncan is the pastor of Cuyahoga Valley Church in Broadview Heights.  "CVC" is a partner church to Gateway West and has helped us out in a number of ways for which we are very grateful.  Rick started CVC a number of years ago and has a huge heart for church planting.  I encourage you to check out his blog (cuyahogavalleychurch.blogspot.com).

Hope to see you tomorrow!

Love ya!

Pastor Dan