"'...There's an empty tomb somewhere in this room this morning.
I invite you to come forward now.'
And people got up to speak of living two years with AIDS, nine months free from drugs. Then a man came forward who, Williams says, had a skittish look in his eyes 'that told me he was still in the tomb...still tied up in the grace clothes of crack cocaine.' The man told the congregation that the drug counseling at the church had been enough to keep him off drugs for days at a time...and a cause for celebration in the body of Christ, who welcomes all who seek him. Blessed be those who throw the church doors open wide."
I invite you to come forward now.'
And people got up to speak of living two years with AIDS, nine months free from drugs. Then a man came forward who, Williams says, had a skittish look in his eyes 'that told me he was still in the tomb...still tied up in the grace clothes of crack cocaine.' The man told the congregation that the drug counseling at the church had been enough to keep him off drugs for days at a time...and a cause for celebration in the body of Christ, who welcomes all who seek him. Blessed be those who throw the church doors open wide."
Norris is a best-selling poet and essayist. She became known for her writings about Christian spirituality, especially after she became a Benedictine oblate and spent two extended periods at Saint John's Abbey in Minnesota.
- Augustine said, 'Who can be good, if not made so by loving?
- Why are we so quick to judge?
- How many times have you been asked, How can you stand to go to church with all the hypocrites inside?
- What should our response be?
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