There are some things that are true for every person. It does not matter if you have faith or not. It does not matter where you choose to put your faith. But faith is something we all have. We just may not call it that. Or we may try to run away from it or hide from it. We may choose to rationalize everything away; which I will tell you does not work. Faith is more than just something those loony tune Christians have. Faith is the need to connect with something higher than we are. I will have more to say in the weeks, months and years to come. Check in next Thursday, The fun is just beginning.
Who am I you ask. I am a Priest in the Episcopal Church who has just retired. I have for a long time wanted to share some thoughts with you but had not had the time. Now I do! I have intuited over the years the reality that faith answers a deep human need: the need for meaning. For me, and I hope to share this with you, faith in God, and for me in the way of God acting through Jesus Christ, has made a huge difference in my life over the years. I will be sharing that with you. We will do some soul searching on various issues in our culture as they come along. You may not like what I say and that’s great. Please share your thoughts with me and those others who read this blog. Hopefully we will get some good conversation going on. That is my goal. Dialogue, reflection, challenge, questions, doubts, disagreements — all these are welcome here.
My plan is to enter a thought weekly on Thursdays.
So.
Here we go.
May God be with you as you join in and with me as I attempt to make some sense.