Technorati Tags:
Faith,
God,
Monk,
Christ
Fewer rules
Fewer expectations
More reverence
Less “I'”
More “they”
Less efficiency
Less judgment
Less analysis
More acceptance
More tolerance
More humanity
More silence
More peace
More joy
More faith
More hope
More love
More Him
I am always struck by how complicated we like to make faith. We like to surround it with stifling rules that don’t apply to everyone. We like to judge others but then say that we don’t do that because we are Christians and, well…Christians don’t do that…but if we do we are “only basing it on the Word of God”. We are godly after all, made in His image, following His decrees. But are we? When I read and absorb simple faith, it is then that I hear the hypocrisy inside myself--inside the constructs of Americanized Christianity. It is in finding a personal relationship with God that I can understand what it is He wants of me. Only in this place can I operate without an agenda I find suspect…
photo courtesy of Klaus Graefensteiner/www.tellingmachine.com