Reconnection

Reconnection

Recently I was preparing for a service in which I am ministering Holy Communion. As I was thinking about what Communion is, and how for many it is a first step at reconnecting with the church and their Savior, I began to look at how I have reconnected in my journey.
Faith and ministry has always been a major part of my life but when I acknowledged my sexuality for the first time, unfortunately I was still living from an unhealthy false belief system that taught me that God would not accept me, and church would no longer be a part of my life. I went from loving everything that related to church and God to being unable to be around or discuss it. Christian music, the Bible, church and Communion all were out of my life...so I thought.

However almost one year exactly after coming out to myself, I attended my first MCC service, and although my attendance was very erratic and uncomfortable this was my first step to reconnect with God and the Church. However it also set me on a journey of trying to come to terms with scripture and I began to read and study everything I could get my hands on.

I remember not partaking of Communion during those early visits to the church, but then eventually I felt Christ was inviting me to and I took those first steps and found a reconnection to my faith and from here I began to be reconnected to all the things I thought I had lost as well as many others I didn't know were available to me. So not only reconnection but connection to a new faith and experience as well.

I now find myself loving Christian music, my love for scripture has also returned....I am reconnected....you see Christ invites us to connect to God through Himself...He states...." I am the Vine you are the branches.....In me you will have Life and Life abundant......

Faith and Spirituality is about connecting with ourselves and with God and with each other and through this connection finding a rich vibrant life that far surpasses anything you can find anywhere.

It is so simple and religion has attepted to make it so difficult...simply take a step to connect with God and the rest will follow........ways to take a step....pray, communion, meditate, sing....just reach out....God's hand is reaching to you already.....