Note: I wrote this after spending some time thinking about Jonah and Nineveh, as well as the idea of being a reluctant preacher, a reluctant messenger of God. I'm not completely sure, but I think this conveys pretty well the way I feel about the church - not about my "specific" church - but about the whole group of people who seek to follow Christ...

CON-

-FLICTED

She is beautiful...

...yet she is ugly.

She is flawed...

...yet she is perfect.

She is whole...

...yet she is broken.

She is worldly...

...yet she is holy.

She is hopeful...

...yet she is hopeless.

She is lost...

...yet she is found

She is healing...

...yet she is hurtful.

I loathe her...

...yet I love her.

I can’t leave her...

...yet I don’t want to stay.

She is God’s...

...and she is good.