Wondering about my Wanderings

Synchronicity

September 28, 2013


Nothing entertains me more than watching how the swimmers are able to be in synche with each other as they swim and dive in the pool. I wonder how reflections in the pool meet up with those in life. At one level I like the idea of being connected with who and what a person or event stirs up. I also crave to be different. How can one be both without sacrificing who I am in relationship to others.


I mainly think of this in the context of work. I am an ordained minister by vocation and at time I feel like a guppy in a secular shark pool. People do not come to the warehouse to worship and praise God. At times they share by their behavior that any body who believes in a creator God is wasting their time. There is the rub for me. There is a word called "syncretism" in Christian faith. It basically means you get so involved with other religious beliefs you lose sight of what makes a difference. I want to make a difference which means I am into excepting. Not all behavior is in the best interest of others or myself.

Maybe I need to get in the water and learn to swim. I am very sure that after they exit the pool they go their separate ways. I pray with God's help I can share they can be with they are and walk into the arms of Christ determined to be accepting. Even as I do it to the least of these I do it to Jesus. Love is an accepting embrace and a matter of letting the world at large know what is fair. I seek to find ways to reflect Christ, dimly in a mirror and then face to face!!