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MONDAY THOUGHT 5/18/09

May 18, 2009 on 12:56 pm | By John Ingrisano | In Faith & Forgiveness | No Comments

Give it your little/some/most/all (circle one)
 
I got home last night from an incredibly, wondrously, spiritually uplifting Cursillo (Cur-C-O) weekend during which people said things like “God bless you” and “Jesus Christ,” even though nobody had sneezed or skinned a knuckle.  (Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all hugged and cried, too.  Got a problem with that?)
 
What I loved best (well, there must have been about a hundred best parts to the weekend, actually) was that people — many who before that would be inclined to say “my faith is private” or “I just don’t get into that spiritual hocus pocus; I’m not some holy roller, you know!”– well, they unfolded, discovered their faith, opened up like flowers blooming or caterpillars emerging from cocoons (the group’s name is Monarch, as in the butterfly).  If you’ve never seen an honest, open transformation like that before …  Wow!  No, double Wow!  You’re missing something incredible.
 
My point:  I know I’ve not expressed it well, probably left you thinking, “Who cares?” or “Words finally failed the fool”  But my point (yes, I do have one) is that — and this I know — the faith we carry around inside of us today is just a minute part of what it could be.  So, I encourage you to explore your faith, discover it, nurture it, let it grow and let it unfold and open like the wings of a butterfly.  Wow!  God bless. — jri
 
“Philip found Nathanael and told him, ‘We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote — Jesus of Nazareth, son of Joseph.’

 ”‘Nazareth!  Can anything good come from there?’ Nathanael asked.

 ”‘Come and see,” said Philip.”

             –    John 1:45-46