Do you ever find you get stuck in a rut of pride? and it's near impossible to get out of that groove - meaning you irritate everyone around you while you try to convince them you're right?
Well, my realization of this has come over the past few months due to being back at home in Athabasca - where I know nearly everyone and am so wrapped up in the politics of my home United Church that I'm starting get stressed about it.
BUT last night when I went to Solomon's Porch - a new church with an Evengelical feel, but a social justice approach (aka my kind of church) - I was brought to my knees. It was not my home church, and yet the people whom I know there/run the church are welcoming and inviting so it feels like it could be (if i were not leaving in a few weeks to head back East). The thing is though - they are open about a lot of the issues they're facing personally, and with the church, and it is refreshing to hear that. Especially since it doesn't interfere with the flow of the church 'service' as it is.
Also, I didn't know everyone so I was humbled by the fact that I couldn't willy-nilly talk to anyone like they knew me, which forced me to recluse a little bit, and be - what i haven't been in a while - noticably socially awkward. :O
Oh well, I feel challenged on the surface because of that ... not to mention the message of the night- which was God's promises, and how humans often misinterpret them. :)
All around a good night. Came home, had a beer, wrote, went to sleep. :)
