I had a lunch at a youth ministers' traveling information tour this week. The lunch was delicious, and we received some lovely swag as parting gifts -- I even won one of the doorprizes. Alas, the information presented felt more like a timeshare presentation, or an awkward infomercial with presentations by the sponsors who paid for the swag and the lunch, almost all of which I found completely irrelevant and unenlightening.
This was followed up by a meeting of some of my peers. I'm really questioning my membership in this particular group. As the only Catholic, I feel like there is very little intersection between our groups, the programs we offer our young people and even the style of meetings. We always end with a prayer for each individual after we lay bare our challenges and struggles of the current time, and the Lord's name is used probably 35 times in each 3 line prayer by the other members. I can't do that. I'm not that. As nice as they all are, I just don't feel like I belong.
The question that remains unanswered, however, is where I do belong.
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The prayers that really get me are the ones that begin: "Lord, I just want to thank/ask/remember . . ."
For some reason, the use of the word "just" puts me over the edge.
Oh my gosh, they said "just" almost as many times as they said Lord/Father or a derivation of the two.
I kept thinking, "I just don't pray like that, Lord..." :)
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