Popcorn Christianity
August 28, 2008
A Christian is one who works out his salvation with One Who causes so much fear and trembling that the Christian fears no man and trembles before no law.
A Christian is an anarchist of the highest moral order; he obeys every law and needs none to tell him to harm none, care for the poor, and to be satisfied with his lot in this life.
A Christian is one who believes that God’s Word is a seed that falls upon the good ground of a ready heart where it grows into a harvest of belief and is gathered, at which point the wheat of wisdom is separated from the chaff of falsehood and made into the bread that is God’s Body on Earth, the Church.
A Christian is one for whom the most natural thing to do is to turn the other cheek after being hit on the first, give a robber the coat off his own back, and forgive a thousand times the man who deserves it none of them.
A Christian is one who sees in every unborn child, tired laborer, drug addict, hopeless convict, destitute immigrant, institutionalized patient, abandoned grandparent, orphaned child, desperate prostitute, and street bum nothing less than the Face of the God he worships.
A Christian is one who believes that the most original, new, and radical idea that has ever existed is the one at the heart and core of tradition, history, and orthodoxy.
A Christian is one who gives thanks for the sun, sings praise because of the rain, is grateful for freedom, and is joyed to be oppressed for the sake of God.
A Christian is one who bears witness without speaking and worships without a word in his mouth.
The confessional
is not a tough place for me.
I hear Catholics talk often
of how uncomfortable they find the Box,
yet it gives me time to reflect.
Awareness is the aim of
the spiritual life. The Buddha
says, “Know well
what leads you forward and
what holds you back.” Without
reflection this is not
possible.
The confessional
is not a tough place for me.
It is my
classroom.
“Father, I shift conversations to
me. I cannot stop thinking about her in the
wrong way. I slander
without reason.”
“Pray for humility. Ask for
good relationships. Love God
and see others as He does.”
I can do that.
The confessional
is not a tough place for me. It is my
guru hearing my weaknesses and giving
advice. It is not harsh
judgment, it is saving
grace.
