This week on the Raised Catholic podcast, we’re exploring the metaphor of our life as a house, and finding where faith resides. When I was younger, I’d consider ‘faith’ as one of the rooms in that house, alongside ‘motherhood’, ‘marriage’, ‘friends’, ‘interests’, and so on. I’d visit the ‘faith’ room pretty much on Sundays and as much as I enjoyed that visit, I’d be just as happy to leave.
I see this so differently now.
Because if the Easter story is true - that God became a human who was born a baby in a poor and humble corner of the world who grew up to heal, teach, and live among us - if this same Jesus was killed because the religious leaders of the day were threatened by the upside-down Kingdom he preached - and if his death devastated all of his followers but then he shocked them all by rising three days later, helping them to start a church which spread throughout the whole world over the centuries from that humble speck of a dot on a map…
Well, if that story is true, then faith can no longer be a ‘room’ I visit. It would have to be the window through which I see everything else, and even myself.
Listen to Raised Catholic episode 171: Faith is Not a Room on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts (or read the transcript), and then let’s meet back here to talk about where you find faith in the house of your life. I’d love to hear all about it!