Check your life at the door...

I wrote this after one particular church service where the opportunities of community were missed for the sake of program.

Check your life at the door

I walked in…

It was a place of beauty.

People loved and were loved and for an hour or so shared their lives. Their hopes, their dreams, faith and doubt…

…and Peace; Peace was the word for the day.

Parents lit a candle symbolizing Peace. Parents, whose son is fighting a war, lit a candle of peace; the irony of life.
And people stood around them, and prayed for them and for all the parents and sons and daughters fighting wars; and we prayed for Peace, Peace in their hearts, Peace on earth…

…and we sang songs of the Prince of Peace and celebrated His birth.

It was a place of beauty, people loved and were loved and shared their lives.

A man prayed, prayed for his son, soon to be baptized, he thanked God for the Peace he found and the Peace his son found and he prayed for the others. And we stood around when the son and the others shared their stories, shared their lives and for a moment we were one, and our stories intertwined. And then they were baptized and we celebrated with the sons and with the parents.

It was a place of beauty, people loved and were loved and shared their lives.

And the pastor spoke, and shared of his life, of the wars he fought, the victory and the defeat, and the Peace he found; and hearts were encouraged, legs were
strengthened, minds were put at ease…

It was a place of beauty, people loved and were loved and shared their lives.


I woke up from a deep sleep…

…I walked in…

…I checked my life at the door.

Faith for Monday

This is my attempt at starting a blog. Don't know what it's going to look like and what it's going to be about, we'll see how it develops. I have called it faith for monday because that's what has been on my mind and what I would like to explore. I have been in church all my life, but have sensed an increasing frustration with the disconnect between what happens in church on Sunday and what life looks like on Monday. I guess what I'm looking for is a faith that doesn't shy away from asking the difficult questions, without dismissing them with the 'easy' answers. A faith that is transforming lives and communities. Real people with real lives. What does that look like??