Restore

I was GIFTED with an awesome rehearsal tonight! I'm so blessed to be in a Passion play during this season of Lent. I'm in the ensemble in Kingdom Undone with Theatre For The Thirsty, and I basically get to pray and reflect as I rehearse for hours a night, 6 days a week, singing, dancing, acting, getting paid and making friends in the theatre?! God's plan is incredible!

Tonight during rehearsal, I became especially sensitive to a bridge in one of the songs where we sing these lyrics: "Come replant, restore, restart, reform, renew, refine, retell, remind, redeem, reclaim, refresh, reshape, revive, rebuild, requite, rewrite." The design of these lyrics reminded me of "Rediscover Catholicism" that I'm currently reading by Matthew Kelly. I've also been listening to a few of his recordings (he's an excellent speaker!) and he calls/encourages/challenges Catholics to be bold, dynamic, authentic, zealous even, in their faith and to dig deeper into the richness and the genius of God's bride, the Church.
... And during rehearsal, as we were repeating the lyrics to solidify the notes, a notion entered into my head that in some ways the lessons in "Rediscover Catholicism" have the potential to mirror Jesus' change in humanity and in history!

There are over 1.2 BILLION Catholics in the world today. It's striking, no, AWE-inspiring, wait, BREATHTAKING to imagine what amazing work we could allow God to do through us. What if we awaken this sleeping giant in our society and follow the examples of the apostles and the disciples of the early church and the saints throughout to become rebels (in the way Jesus was a rebel) and reject the ways of our modern, hedonistic culture?

I pray that we may open our hearts and minds to how Jesus restored his people and to how He is working to restore our lives and the Catholic church today!