Reply #57: Thanks from my heart...

[Bluenorthwest]

I love your post. You are showing a great deal of love and respect for your faith as well as for other people. I usually call upon religious people on DU to 'clean their own house' rather than bitch about being 'persecuted' or lumped in with haters. You are actually doing that, unasked, with great skill and might I say, grace. You are a good steward.
I want you to know that I for one know the difference between UCC and the likes of Warren. UCC has been sterling in so many difficult times. UCC always errs on the side of love. They have often taken the burdens of others as their own. UCC members and ministers and choirs have stood with me and mine, physically and strongly, for as long as I have been an activist. When I first heard of Obama's run for President, I looked up his church. When I found it was Trinty UCC Chicago, I was thrilled! It was that connection that was the first endorsment for me. Rev Wright, who like me can get rhetorically out of hand at times, has usually been righteous with his actions toward others, and he and his church have been heros to me. Many times over. Wright has taken the burdens that are not his own. Trinity and other UCC congregations were beside deathbeds so hard to bear that some parents could not visit or would not visit dying children. UCC people did. I will never forget that, no matter how others may sully the very notion of chruch and faith. I'll never forget those people, they are my brothers and my sisters.

But mostly I just want you to know how happy this posting made me. A ray of light.
Peace