Faith

Everybody has secrets but none with God. We carry hurtfulness that weighs us down. Once in silent communion with God, we let go yet often still desire a confidant, a counselor. We look for answers in life and learn from other people’s stories. Humans need one another and it is grand to be united. Unity takes effort. Unity takes the willingness of more than one for the common good of a church. Have you noticed? Church Friends are united in the commitment to worship together. The Pastor leads, the choir sings, members volunteer to help in multiple ways, and in spoken or unspoken prayers, we stand firm in our faith. The truth is… we come together with a light of hope in our being. We come together… in search of the place we belong. We come in need of rest, comfort, encouragement, and our heavenly Father’s wisdom.

In the center of the kitchen table sat a dozen boiled colored eggs to be eaten as a feast after church on Easter Sunday. Following forty days of fasting by restraining from eating anything derived from an animal, we looked forward to cracking the eggs by taking turns saying “Christ has Risen!”, and tapping the egg held by another who responded, “Indeed He Is Risen!”. It was great good luck to be the first one with a cracked egg to be eaten.