About 35 years ago a friend gave me a
book that she insisted was a “must read”. I read it simply because I didn’t want
to say no to her—and my life was forever changed. The book was No Longer
Strangers by then Faith@Work president Bruce Larson. His words gave language
to my longing for a spiritual community and for a different experience of God
from the one I’d lived with all my life.
This led me to Faith@Work magazine. The more I read about experiences of honest, vulnerable sharing, the more I wanted to be connected to FAW in a tangible way, so I began sending $10 a month from my grocery money to the national organization (I later learned that at that time this made me one of FAW’s larger regular donors!).
Years have passed. I still give regularly to FAW, and for the same reasons. I want to stay connected to this community that has so profoundly affected my spiritual journey. I want to be a part of passing on this liberating, energizing, inclusive, celebratory way of living to others—especially to those who have been living under the Christian “law” of shoulds and oughts and who long, as I did, for an experience of God’s love in human form. Christ with skin on, if you will.
When I was a Girl Scout many years ago we sold our cookies door-to-door. I hated it! Said I’d never, ever try to sell stuff? Now I’m a shameless shill for Faith@Work. Why? Because I know that what I offer is deep nourishment for the spirit—soul food, as we say in the South. May it ever be so.