An Evangelists' Dream

I consider myself an evangelist. I know, this evoke images of Jimmy Swaggert and the now demoted Ted Haggard but let me explain.

I love proclaiming Jesus. I'm not a great teacher, though I can do it. I love being Jesus to other people, but I'm not a cloistered pray-er. It just gets my motor going to proclaim Jesus Christ is Lord both in word and deed, through relationships with people and in talks that I'll give.

So today's reading from the Philippians was just a dream: And I was the reader for noon Mass today:

Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus,

Who, though he was in the form of God,

did not regard equality with God

something to be grasped.

Rather, he emptied himself,taking the form of a slave,

coming in human likeness;

and, found human in appearance,

he humbled himself,

becoming obedient to death,

even death on a cross.

Because of this, God greatly exalted him

and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,

that at the name of Jesus

every knee should bend,

of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

and every tongue confess thatJ

Jesus Christ is Lord,to the glory of God the Father.

Of course I couldn't get up and say how excited I was to give the reading, but the thought did cross my mind. Thank goodness for blogs!