Great day at Searchlight. The first meeting at our new location, hopefully impacting the community of Long Branch.
When I get honest I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and I get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good. I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle calls me a rational animal; I say I am a recipient of grace with an incredible capacity for sin.
To live by grace means to acknowledge the whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admiting my shadows I learn who I am and what God's grace means.
"A saint is not someone who is good, but someone who experiences the goodness of God."-Merton
When I go to church I leave my white hat at home and admit I have failed. God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to put on spiritual make-up to appear presentable. I can, I will accept ownership of my povery, my powerlessness, my neediness.
I already know all that. As C.S. Lewis says, "People need more to be reminded than instructed."
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