Faith. A Question.

While heading out the door this morning to greet the day via thrift shops, I tuned in to my favorite Richard Rohr sermon.  It’s just over six minutes long and I have listened to it about eighteen times.  My temporal lobe wants to squeeze out every drop of truth like juice from ripened fruit.  It’s all so good; I may commit gluttony.  

The question Rohr asks over and over is,

“What are you for?  What is the thing that gets you up in the morning because that is your faith?”  

Rohr points out if he were to say something negative; talk about what he was against he would be able to gather a larger crowd.  He may even get applause.  Leaving me to wonder.  Why is that?

To be sincere; Its exhausting. 

Facebook.

News Stations.

Comment sections.

Radio Stations.

Twitter.

Etc….

The polarized media is difficult to face on a daily basis.  The worldly approach is cumbersome to navigate when you are trying to get though the eye of a needle.  Not to polarize my own point, there is good in social media, there is positive on the news and radio, but the question is what captures us?  What do we pluck from the tree of good and evil?  And what do we do with what we know? 

Is our faith directing us into difficult conversations or comfortable ones?

Is our faith telling us to love or label?

Is our faith raising us above others or putting us at each other’s feet?

Do we care more about what we are against and less about what we are for, and what does balance look like in this place?

More questions than answers for us meat bags.