The grand adventure

Greetings all!

With Pentecost last weekend, I was invited on to the Morning Air show to talk a bit about my own reversion story. You can listen here and the conversation begins at minute 11:10.

The most interesting part of this conversation for me was right around minute 19 when I explain to John that I feel like one of the lucky ones. It really is like I escaped something. More importantly, to my later point, the point where you enter or re-enter the Church is not the culmination or summit of your relationship with God. It is just the beginning. You will indeed not absorb all cosmic knowledge of God at the moment the bishop or priest makes the sign of the cross in oil on your forehead; you will not even have absorbed all knowledge of God by the end of your life. It isn’t possible.

It is a big deal to enter the Church, and a brave thing. I think God gives us a helpful kind of blindness in the beginning, or else people would not make that step. Because as you go along, you realize how much there is to learn, the vastness of God, the way it automatically positions you to be extraordinarily counter cultural. It is easy to feel child-like. This is where community helps, because we are not intended to live in the faith alone - another thing that isn’t possible.

So, I hope that conversation is helpful. I hope if you are someone on the edge of the Church looking in, you let the Holy Spirit guide you there. Be ready to have your life shaken up, but in the best way, one which signals a grand adventure is beginning.