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MONDAY THOUGHT 5/12/08

May 12, 2008 on 1:29 am | By John Ingrisano | In Faith & Forgiveness | No Comments

I have a confession:  I have always been a bit of a wanderer and, though wanting a home, have not found it easy to set down roots.  I think it’s safer when you keep moving — makes it harder for people to get a bead on you!

But in the last few years, I have found a wonderful faith home, a faith family at my church that is accepting and embracing, loving and, yes, sometimes forgivingly tolerant of my stiff-necked ways.  Through my church and the diverse, wonderful people, I have grown to feel “safe” enough to be myself — willing to not only give love to others, but also to let them in and to accept love from them.  It is a church of people not just from Sturgeon Bay and Jacksonport, Wisconsin, but of men and women throughout the diocese and the state and even as far away as England.  Most of all, it is a church of Christ’s love, filled with broken vessels, hopeful sinners, and honest seekers, a church of the clayfooted and the forgiven — folks just like me. 

My point?  Gratitude.  Appreciation.  I know this is not my most dazzling writing, but sometimes one has to just grunt out the “thank yous” and trust that the message is understood.  God bless and thank you to all the wonderful members of my faith family.  You are all balm on my nicked and battered soul — jri

“The body is a unit, though it is made up of
many parts; and though all its parts are
many, they form one body.  So it is with
Christ.  For we were all baptized by one
Spirit into one body — whether Jews or
Greeks, slave or free — and we were all
given the one Spirit to drink.”
        –    St. Paul
               (1 Corinthians 12:12-13)