As a Protestant I wasn’t brought up with the word sin in my vocabulary; that was for Catholics. Instead, we heard Jesus loves me, and were quite proud about that; we had the true message! Times have changed, but nevertheless, at least in my UCC church, sin is still not a prominent word. We don’t say it much. For example, in the Lord’s Prayer we say, ‘forgive us our trespasses,’ not, ‘forgive us our sins.’
Lately I’ve been giving more thought to what sin means to me--not the individual ‘bad’ things I do as much as sin as part of being human. We aren’t perfect, and if we want to find any peace from God, we had better recognize and acknowledge that part of who we are. To do so keeps us humble and open to doing our part to work for God’s kingdom come here on earth.
My prayer for the children and parents separated at our borders is more powerful when I admit that I am complicit as a sinful human being. Only when I keep picking myself off the floor can I hope that officials and politicians will do the same for the children.
Lately I’ve been giving more thought to what sin means to me--not the individual ‘bad’ things I do as much as sin as part of being human. We aren’t perfect, and if we want to find any peace from God, we had better recognize and acknowledge that part of who we are. To do so keeps us humble and open to doing our part to work for God’s kingdom come here on earth.
My prayer for the children and parents separated at our borders is more powerful when I admit that I am complicit as a sinful human being. Only when I keep picking myself off the floor can I hope that officials and politicians will do the same for the children.
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