I also believe to my core that, for all the horrific bugs in our operating system over the centuries, the Church still bears something sacred and relevant and as desperately needed as ever to this lonely, hurting world of ours. We don’t have to be a perfect community. Just one that’s humbly faithful to the way of Jesus in our relationships with friend, sinner, and stranger alike. And when we are, our life together here at Calvary can still be a source of miraculous cures.
Paul invited the Corinthians to reorient themselves – to look upward and outward toward God. He invited them to join together in seeking out the place where the wounded heart of humanity meets the divine presence of God.
“Before you know what kindness really is / you must lose things… Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,/ you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”