And coffee.
Daily or weekly prayers and devotions? All the religions do that. Guilt and repentance? Ditto. All the major (and some of the minor) religions preach peace and love (though not all really follow it).
Only Christianity gives us crisp, salty fried pig fat for breakfast, and for that alone I am thankful to be a Christian.
Ok, I’m half kidding. Yesterday I once again finished reading one of my all time favorite books:
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
I read it every year during Lent. It always makes me smile, by humanizing Christ in a way that the language of the Bible doesn’t allow for. Where the Bible is cold, hard recitation of the facts, Lamb is fiction, but you want to believe it.
Have a blessed Easter everyone.
God bless you to Wendy. God bless you.
Amen RightGirl. Bacon is the 8th sacrament.
Actually, my friend, there is no guilt in Christ. We often feel we have to “work out” our salvation, or that we MUST feel guilty so that we can somehow PAY for our sins. But we can’t. We are completely unable to pay for our sins because that bill has already been paid. We must accept the forgiveness and have the courage to live as a forgiven person. Why is that hard? Because it forces us to realize that to be a forgiven person, we must forgive others.
That’s the scary part. Forgiving others. I seem to have been born without that gene.
RG
LOL… that’s because it’s not a gene, sweetie! It’s a choice, it’s ALL about choice. If it were some part of our genetic code then it wouldn’t be a choice and it would completely defeat the purpose.
People who forgive others are not better/worse or stronger/weaker… they’ve just CHOSEN to forgive someone. And sometimes they have to choose the same thing every morning they wake up.
Because forgiveness isn’t an instantaneous thing, it’s more of a process.