Considerations for those who proclaim Christ by the written Word

We will not change the world, we who find it sufficient to write stories, poems, articles, books, and blogs. We mill about adjusting, faxing, featuring, declining. Hesitating and suddenly (inspired) vaunting.

We are weak and partial creatures, make no mistake. The Lord of heaven and earth loves us just the same as if we were saints, which we can be, by his Grace.

Who is the good Christian other than the man or woman who says, I am a Christian, and feels it in his or her heart? Who other than than the child of God who, doubtful of His Church, acknowledges the wisdom and grace of Christ, even as that person may not acknowledge His supremacy. Who? Is there a clear answer? Of course not. Oh, how sad would be a clear answer, but how I love to hear someone say they are drawn to Christ, or to the Pope. What happiness can compare?

And yet. And...yet.

Do I move mountains by my faith? I have not seen seen a mountain moved or a fig tree bear fruit or a world altered. I am assigned my portion and I am grateful for it. Well, this is the natural disposition of a man or woman who has survived their failures, great and small, you say. Even so - even by dint of such recognition - how sad it would be to arrive at a simple formula or principal, an equation that translates: I am a good Christian. As if being Christian makes one somehow an expert on life!

Who yearned more for exactly that the title of "Good Christian" than the Apostle Peter, and who failed more miserably than he when he denied our Lord? Poor Peter.

And yet. And...yet. Was he not appointed chief of the Apostles? Blessed is he or she who fails in their ambition to be all that God asks of them, when only God can grant that such be true.

All that is true will be granted by God, make no mistake. All that is true is of God. We who write - so partially, such fragile, incomplete, fractured sentences - can afford to be grateful, on the one hand that it has been given to us to test ourselves and others with words, and on the other hand to acknowledge that eternal truth resides in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ.

Amen.