The Peaceful Gnome

In my previous post I went on about how I “know” that Jesus wants me to be Catholic.  Today I share a cartoon from “Coffee with Jesus” that returns me back to the reality that it’s not nearly so clear and easy to figure out as I might wish.  It is humbling to realize that God is so much larger than my feeble imagination :-)  So, in spite of my previous rather bold assertions, I'm really not so certain that God wants much beyond my trust.  As Lutherans are so fond of saying Faith Alone (trust alone).   To prove just how shallow my "spiritual senses" are I realized the other day, after my post, while I was in church at Messiah for the final Lenten midweek service, without any children along, that much of the difference in the "feeling the presence of God" that I was experiencing might well be attributable to distractions being there or not.  Said "distraction" most often being a wonderful and very small boy by the name of Max.  :-) ...

So, am I going to post this thing I've written?  Or am I going to run away from God again?  Well that won't work so here you go. This post did not go in the direction I had intended it to go.  I sat down a couple of days ago to write about how I had come to peace with the “fact” that there was no particular church I needed to go to, that God was OK with whatever church I was at as long as I believed in Jesus, that it wasn't really all that important to have just the right doctrine.  For most of my life I've sought “TRUTH,” yes truth in all caps. Ultimate truth, total truth, pure truth.  I've called myself a “seeker” for a very long time.  I have always been convinced that there must be “TRUTH” but I didn't know where to look for it, science or religion or philosophy? Having studied dozens of religions over several decades, Hinduism, Buddhism, Baha'i, New Age style paganism, I finally concluded that Christianity presented the best explanation for e...