One thing will never change, however. Our faith is founded on the life and death of Jesus the Christ. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," October 30, 2019
Why do so many reject that? The rejection seems based solely on the words Jesus Christ...or, maybe more to the point, based solely on fear of the words Jesus Christ.
Yet, I know for myself, my entire resistance to religion was based on what I was taught at age 12 at my church...which was not Catholic and the teacher was not a nun. My church was just plain old down-home, no-frills, no-chills religion...boring in a word.
As I've aged and matured, I've realized my need to find a God of my understanding, and I know I've been led to learn about spirituality. Since I knew more about the Christian faith than any other (about most of which I knew nothing), I gravitated to the teachings in the Bible, King James version. And found that I couldn't make a lick of sense of anything written there. So I branched out.
Interestingly, the Sermon on the Mount was, and ever has been, waiting for me at the base of...I hesitate to say all, but it seems so..all the teachings and teachers that have found me. Since that came straight from Jesus the Christ, I clambered up the steps and knew me to be home.
Since I got over myself, I have no resistance today to Jesus Christ, but, no doubt the pearl beyond price, I have no problem with others who have a problem today with Jesus Christ. I keep being pushed, pulled, led and fed by friends, books and blinding flashes of the obvious, and I encourage any and all who choose to...clamber on up those steps with me.
Thank you.
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