Christ the uniter

Today was pretty slow; woke up relatively earlyl had breakfast on the deck with Dad, biked over to Indian Meadows for some tennis practice, visited the Kristol's in their care center with Mom, and renewed my love affair with Pizza Time for the first time in many months.

It's a funny question to be asked, "who do you dislike most in this church?" It's a fair question, because even within the body of Christ, we're all sinners and we're all going to offend one another. It's an evidence of the presence of Christ for one to be able to honestly say, ... "no one". It's a miracle that so many people, of such diverse backgrounds, personalities, social means and many such differences, can be united in a way that surpasses even the closest ties where the bond of Christ is not operative. As the song goes, ... blood is thicker than water, but love is thicker than blood. A relationship built only on affinity, blood-relation, or even sexual attraction doesn't hold a candle to one based on a common reliance on the vicarious blood of Christ.