2005-01-09 
 

giving thanks

After all my worries about meeting new people yesterday, it ended up being a very nice time.

Snapshot: We're all getting in line to grab food and the truck driver tells us that we'll say grace first. So we're all in a tight circle holding hands in an appropriately suburban kitchen and I'm expecting...I don't know what. G's family isn't very religious, but this is a friend of the family. I guess I'm hoping that the guy doesn't say anything that's going to cause hurt and make me have to speak up on behalf of the little people.

Where's my trust in the universe gone? He proceeded to say one of the nicest graces I've ever heard. Spoken from the heart by a man who believes in the same Jesus I've known since childhood. The Jesus who loves the little children and tells us that love surpasses all other things. The Jesus who accepts all people regardless of background or life situation because it isn't about what makes us different, but instead what makes us the same.

Insert the word God or Goddess in there if the name Jesus makes you too uncomfortable. He doesn't mind.

It was nice to spend some time with him again.

Truck Driver and the Beary Nice Lady are Unitarians. I'm thinking of having M take me to a service next week when I'm visiting her and little E. I'm intrigued.

Labels: dose of mikey, g, local getaway, spirit

* posted by me at 1:24 PM

Comments:

That post made me smile on the inside as well as outside. :-) I had forgotten all about that Jesus, the loving and accepting one.

# posted by  Chox : 1:49 PM, January 10, 2005

 

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