Give An Explanation

Today’s second reading (1 Pt 3:15-18) drove the message home clearly and painfully…as painful as a sharp stick in the eye.

An excerpt from the first Letter of Saint Peter

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“Always be ready to give an explanation

  to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope,

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This troubles me because I have tried to explain the unexplainable.   Even though I believe in the unbelievable…and I am convinced that the unexplainable unbelievable is absolutely true…yet…I cannot find the words to adequately explain my reason for hope…especially to someone who doesn’t want to believe. 

It worries me that my inability to effectively explain my reason for HOPE…may come back and bit me on my “beast of burden”.

As I scribble my thoughts in cursive

Writing this mindless missive.

I find myself quite pensive

Perhaps a bit obsessive.

For the HOPE that You do give

Makes me want to live.

I no longer can be passive

Now I hold the motive.

Currently it is the season

To explain and to reason.

This is no time for cowards

It’s time to find the right words.

That tell the amazing story

Of Your power and Your glory.

I might show some true grit

With the help of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.