Living the Mystery

In Graham Green’s The Power and the Glory the hero is “the whiskey priest”.  This man is definitely not perfect.  Very much a person with massive flaws.  And yet, Greene makes him a saint, and everyman, and at one point makes the statement, “he could still put God on men’s tongues.”

It is a shocking idea.  God uses flawed people, which is all of us.  The whiskey priest was still a bridge to God for many people, drunk or not.  We can still be bridges to God, flaws or not!

This is the mystery of forgiveness and grace

Lord, I know that I have my flaws

You know that I have my flaws

Everyone knows

And yet you ask me to be your representative

You as me, me

To help people

To help them heal

and learn about you

and your love for them

Lord, this is indeed a mystery

I am too tired to pretend that I am righteous

I am too flawed to hide my brokenness

I am too human

And yet through all of my limitations

And failure

In spite of all my bad decisions

And weaknesses

You flow

I don’t understand it Lord

Sometimes I don’t trust it

I can only put one foot in front of the other

I can only take it one day

One moment at a time

And live the mystery