Who Am I Part Two

Who Am I (Part Two)

Good Evening Gentle Readers

Way back when I wrote a poem entitled “Who Am I”, and I will still let that stand as a pretty good picture of who in truth I really am, today I am going to write a bit more on who I am…..

I am a Christian

A Roman Catholic to be exact, I have been all my life, it has always been at the core of my being even though at times I hid that fact from the world, and I tried to hide it from myself as well, but that’s another story.

As a Christian, I believe in God, “The Creator of Heaven and Earth” and of all of creation, things seen and unseen. I also, because I am a Christian believe in Jesus Christ, this goes without saying.

Inside of those beliefs there is a deeper truth that I think gets missed a lot of the time. Even though it was spelled out pretty clearly in the Bible, “No longer is there free man or slave, Greek or Jew” So when it comes right down to it all of this noise about this group and that group is, in the view of Christians sort of irrelevant. So as a Christian and a Catholic, which by the way means Universal, I have to stand with my brothers and sisters….

I have to stand with my fellow Christians who face ridicule and violence for there beliefs

I have to stand with my brothers who are Jewish who have suffered through the nightmare of history

I have to stand with the people of Islam who face hatred and death for what they believe

I have to stand with my Buddhist brothers against the violence of oppression

I have to stand with those who are Gay against discrimination and hatred

I have to stand with all people who hunger for justice and fair treatment

I have to stand for the poor and the marginalized

I have to stand for those who do not have a voice

I have to take a stand on the side of God, who loved us first even when we did not love in return

I have to stand for peace

I have to stand for love

There can be no room in my heart for any sort of hatred, no space for any prejudice

And that is what it is to be a Christian

I am going to have to do a lot of work because I am not there yet, but to be a Christian is to follow Christ, and that means a lot of things.

Take Care and God Bless

Good Enough