Sunday, December 30, 2012

So many find no comfort in their sin ...nor should there be. But, oh what a difference in philosophies. Some feel so blessed with God's love, they misinterpret it ...and consider little any sin that perchance entered their life. Others may feel so under the burden, that they are cruelly unfair to themselves ...thinking they can never feel forgiven, because their wrongdoing is too great. It seems both extremes insult God's love. There should be no sin so small that we ourselves should feel we can overlook it, nor should we consider any sin too great that God cannot forgive it.

   Rebekkah finds comfort as she reads. She cross-references the section of Psalms with the first Chapter of the Book of Isaiah.  As she finishes reading the chapter, the same woman with the long white dress emerges from the church.  Her face is no longer troubled.                                                              

   Rebekkah feels a breeze.  The air is crisp and refreshing.  The woman is alert and looking about, free from the restraints of one who struggles with unforgiveness.   

   Free from the grasp of judgment, of self or others, the woman is free to speak, “Oh, I see you’re reading the Bible!”
                   

   Rebekkah finds herself free of the appearance of a vagrant, sitting on the church steps.  Now they are on an equal standing.  The woman can now share on a personal level, “It makes the whole difference, doesn’t it?  I feel so much better.  Last week the priest said I was too set in my ways. And he was right.  I always sit on the left side of the church and go to the left confessional booth.  I was so much un-right, I didn’t know what was left to my life.  It seems silly, but I was so much left this and left that, I felt left out.   But today, I wanted to get things right.  So I sat on the right side and went into the right confessional.  I don’t know how to explain the feeling, but it seemed to make the whole difference.  It just seemed to make everything right.
                         

   Rebekkah feels this isn’t right at all. Mixing too much of odd lots of tradition and habitual mind sets, too mindless open-mindedness and sadly superstitious.
                 


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