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WEDNESDAY THOUGHT 11/26/08

What, Me Worry?
 
I was once told that fear and worry are signs of lack of faith.  Great!  One more thing to worry about!  I’d love to be able to brag that — as a man who takes his faith seriously — I never worry.  I mean, I’m in God’s ever-reliable, trustworthy hands, right?  Absolutely.  But I’m a man of small faith, not the part-the-Red-Sea-in-the-morning-and-cure-a-leper-or-two-in-the-afternoon kind of faith.
 
I’m a show-me, remind me, reassure me, doubting-Thomas kind of believer.  I know — how pathetic!  I stand up in the morning and, like St. Peter, swear my devotion to and love for God.  But by afternoon, when something as insignificant as the handle breaking on the refrigerator, I swear at God and curse my luckless fate.  I feel sorry for God.  He doesn’t have much with which to work when it comes to me. 
 
The good news:  I know and believe (beyond just a hunch or a hope) that it’s okay, that God has worked with bigger clowns than me (well, maybe not, but that still puts Peter and me in darn good company), and that if He can put up with this clay-footed, unreliable yahoo, then I’ll do my best to stumble along until I almost get it right, worry and all.  And for that I’m ever grateful … most of the time. — jri
 
“For he chose us in him before the
creation of the world to be holy and
blameless in his sight.”
        –    St. Paul
               (Ephesians 1:4)