This post reminds me the 'catch phrase' of one of the 'spice girls' (ministers' spouses of the female variety) who has supported me over a number of years... one who is nominally 'of great price' if you know your scriptures.

We - the church - are in it for the long haul as salt and light, as prophets and priests, as pastors and evangelists.  Sometimes we cling on by our finger nails - and any person who claims otherwise is, I suspect, very new to this, very misguided or not very engaged.  Sometimes it is a sheer slog.  Sometimes it is scary.  Sometimes, as individuals, we have to let others do the 'keeping on' for us.  But keeping on keeping on, saving starfish one at a time, transforming the world one prayer at a time, growing in maturity one step at a time - that's what we are called to do.

Hang on in there.  Keep on keeping on.  Whatever the form of words...

And behold, I AM with you always, to the very end of the age.