people often tell me that i am a good example of what a faithful Christian should be and that they admire me. and that they wish they were as strong - and as forgiving - as i am. ha!
ha! on two levels. one, the better a Christian you are, the worse a Christian you realize you really are.
(father robert barron, a catholic priest in the archdiocese of chicago, says that the real difference between a saint and a sinner is that a saint is a sinner who really knows it. he says being a saint is kinda like looking through a window in the sunlight - you see all the smudges then. when it's cloudy, you don't notice. being a saint, that is, being someone who is trying to be oriented to the Sonlight, reveals how unsaintly one really is.)
(not that anyone's accusing me of being a saint!) :)
so......i am not as good as y'all might think. just drop by my place on a sunny day and you'll see.
second.......there's no secret - no trick - to being a "good" Christian. nike would probably shrink in horror to realize it, but their famous slogan sums up Christianity quite well - "just do it."
if, in any way, i am an inspiration to anyone, it's not because i know something y'all don't. i probably don't know half of what y'all know. it's because what i am doing is just doing it. in spite of the fact that 90 percent of the damned time, i don't want to.
just do it. (thanks, nike.)
and clean your windows. (thanks, windex.)
