Our stained glass masquerade…

Okay so all last week I was working on a ton of freelance work that had to be turned around in a week, so I sincerely ask for you forgiveness in not having more to offer you in terms of decent blogging material, or really any new blogging material for that matter. With that said I promise to update my blog more often again.

Anyway It's Holy Week and in trying to prepare for Holy Week I thought it would be a good idea to visit the confessional. I tried to make it my Lenten discipline to go to confession at least every other week (if that sounds like a lot your probably right, but I herd somewhere once that John Paul the Great went every week! If that great man felt it important enough to go that frequently who am I to say differently. I need to hold myself up to a higher standard) besides the feeling of cleanliness and spiritual rebirth afterwords make it a wonderful experience. So while I'm on my way to confession I keep singing this song I was listening to while I was working, and with Holy Week starting the next day "Palm Sunday" I just felt a real connection to the message this song was conveying…

Is there anyone that fails
Is there anyone that falls
Am I the only one in church today feeling so small

When I take a look around
Everybody seems so strong
I know they'll soon discover
That I don't belong

So I tuck it all away, like every thing's okay
If I make them all believe it, maybe I'll believe it too
So with a painted grin, I play the heart again
So everyone will see me the way that I see them

But would it set me free
If I dared to let you see
The truth behind the person
That you imagine me to be

Would your arms be open
Or would you walk away
Would the love of Jesus
Be enough to make you stay.

Now with that song playing over and over again in my mind and as I'm standing in line (amazing I know in this day and age to see more that one person waiting in line for confession, It makes me proud to stand next to people who actually take their faith seriously) what struck me most were the people that were there. People that I see as without blemish or fault. Then it strikes me that we're all here for the same purpose, to get right with God once again. I don't know what sins another man has in his heart and frankly I don't care, what is important to me though is that we realise that we're on the same mission, to love one another as God has loved us. So I ask you this today, with all of my past, present and future faults, sins and transgressions…

Would your arms be open
Or would you walk away
Would the love of Jesus
Be enough to make you stay.
"I Pray that my arms would be open"

Please if you do any thing this Holy Week, examine your conscience, visit the confessional and get right with God. The Grace your receive will abound and the witness you give may change the life of someone who feels burdened and alone. We are the body of Christ not separated but one. Let us stand and work together, that is when we are at our greatest.

“Confession is a difficult Discipline for us because we all to often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else has advanced so far into holiness that we are isolated and alone in our sin. We cannot bear to reveal our failures or shortcomings to others. We imagine that we are the only ones who have not stepped onto the high road to heaven. Therefore we hide ourselves from one another and live in veiled lies and hypocrisy. – Richard Foster”