On the trip I saw a driver that was driving a bit erratically, as I got closer I saw that they had a West Virginia sticker on the back.
"Oh, that explains it" I thought.
Then the funeral was a Catholic funeral. As far as I can remember this was my first time in a Catholic church less than 200 years old, it was odd.
I thought the litergy was cool, the rest of the church could use more. Then they started saying something about Mary after the Lord's prayer. Then the priest kept talking about her and the saints. The 20 ft tall crucified Jesus did not help either.
You may think these two thoughts are not without merit. There are many documented cases of WVU fans being jerks and the school does have that reputation in parts.
My feelings on being in the Catholic church are not all that odd either. Many of the doctrines are borderline heretical from a Protestant/ Anabaptist view.
But I know that these feelings were not in the realm of past facts. I felt like I was judging those that held to the Catholic church as foolish. I know that I was not just assuming... I KNEW the driver was a jerk because of the WVU sticker.
I do not like that at all.
It gets easy for me to focus on an old sin that has been mostly conquered and feel like I am done growing. Or look at my recent distance from God and think that is the only issue I have.
I am still a broken person that God is doing is work in, and only by his grace is doing his work through.
In these times of revelation it is hard to remember that God sees us as a completed work, as pure and justified in Christ.
I need to remember that.
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
(Colossians 3:1-4 NIV)
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