(Down to the River to Pray Introduction and Explanation)
Faith isn’t an exclusive God Club with passwords and secret handshakes, who’s in and who’s not. If you’re a member, say the code,
Person answering the door: “The rain in Spain fills the buckets of a train.”
Person wanting in: ” The man in the nightshirt, he walks with a cane.”
Person answering the door: “You may enter, my brother.”
and you’re in. I know it seems that way but it’s not. I don’t blame you for thinking that.
Faith also isn’t a list of things, concepts, ideas, tenets, a philosophy, one, two, three, four, five, got ’em? o.k.! and that’s that. I completely understand why you would think so.
How can I communicate the God reality? It is relationship, it is renewal, it is life from death. How can I express that it is love, it is hope, and that it involves a real someone acting in real history? I guess only by relating, renewing, loving, accepting, forgiving.
Oh Lord, heal and save.
