I’VE BEEN THINKING…
by Rick Thyne
I've been thinking about weeds in the garden of my soul.
For the past decade, there has been this moment in our worship service that leaves me quite literally speechless. I have nothing to say when the priest invites us to confess our sins. I think of confession as naming as much as I know of myself in the moment, with non-defensive clarity, owning up to the truth about who I am and what I do. And in this worshipful silence, my mind cannot conjure anything about me that rises to the level of sin.
I've been thinking about being stripped naked.
and about the secrets we keep, and those we tell.
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