Friday’s thoughts
I have never enjoyed asking people for pledges and yet I know how important it is to support the church and to keep the ministry alive. Commitment Sunday has a much more important function than the usual panic that sets in with the pledging process. It’s really about more than pledges to the church; it ’s about the way we share our faith. It has more to do with the day-to-day issues of faith than with the hype of faith gone wild with drama.
Sunday I will be talking some about the hype of faith; the hype of the holy, but I will be saying more about the “hum” of faith because I think that’s what is more important to us.
The holy; the sacred comes to us in the quiet times more frequently than the intervening of the dramatic. The hum of faith is about raising our children; making a living; keeping honest and congruent, and reaching out to others. The hum of faith is the satisfaction of a job well done, and the sense that God was with us in the doing of it. The hum of faith is the quiet before worship begins as we reflect on our lives and our journey of spirit.
We will support the church as we realize the quiet foundation it provides us and which we experience, each of us, in our own way.
How do you understand the “hum” of faith as compared with the “hype”?
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I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
