Resurgam: I shall rise again

Posted on September 27, 2012 by elizabeth

Jesus asks me to hold the impossible tension. Jesus asks me to stand in the rubble and embrace it all: the joy, the sorrow, the sinner and the saint. I have tried the Way of Parsing and discovered that by chipping away parts of my faith I didn’t like, I undermined the whole….READ MORE AT DEEPER STORY.

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  • Handsfull

    Love your words… and your faith and hope :)

  • Kimberly

    I commented over at Deeper Story, but then realized it was already a couple days old… so I’m re-posting here. For future reference, are you alerted when people comment on pieces you’ve written on other websites?

    Every time you talk about the Eucharist holding you to the Catholic
    faith, I find myself nodding in agreement. It’s why Orthodoxy and
    Catholicism are the only denominations that I could throw myself
    wholeheartedly into, and the year I decided to leave Catholicism for
    Orthodoxy was incredibly difficult–being between two Churches, I partook
    from neither.

    Both Churches have their share of brokenness, though. My priest told
    me of how, after becoming Orthodox and growing more aware of its
    imperfections, he went to his spiritual father demanding an explanation
    for how the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church could have so many
    problems. His spiritual father responded, “We were fine until you
    showed up.”

    That might not be the best response for all people struggling with
    this question, but for my priest, it’s what he needed to hear. The
    Church embraces broken people. It’s how he got to be a part of it. It
    also means that the Church has a fair amount of people-driven problems,
    but it still takes them in with open arms, for their benefit and
    healing. Glory to God.