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March 01

There is an incident in the book Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll where the White Queen is trying to get Alice to believe that she is 101 years, 5 months, and a day old. Alice cannot accept that, so the Queen tells her to draw a long breath, shut her eyes, and try. “There’s no use trying,” said Alice. “One can’t believe impossible things.”

The Queen responds, “Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”1

When we watch athletic events, such as the Olympics, that require great skill, the competitors seem to do impossible things. They are, of course, not doing the impossible but stretching the limits of the possible through better training and better equipment.

When Jesus was on the Mountain of Transfiguration with three of His apostles, the rest of the twelve were down below, working with the crowd that nearly always followed the Master. In the crowd were a father and his epileptic son. The son was continually racked by terrible seizures. The father brought his boy to those nine apostles for healing, but they couldn’t heal him. Later, the apostles asked Jesus why they had been unable to cure the boy. Jesus replied: “Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you’ ” (Matthew 17:20).

Have you moved many mountains lately . . . mountains of doubt . . . mountains of fear . . . mountains of frustration . . . mountains of stress?

As Jesus puts it on another occasion: “What is impossible with men is possible with God.” You and God.