Code of Virtue by Susan L.

  Our church's worship team leader approached me to write something for the final week's teaching on virtue. This is what was shared yesterday:

Chivalry is dead. Instead, it’s a dog eat dog world out there.

Human-it-y has left the human out, so all that’s left is an it-ty bit of the most precious piece of all:

The gift part.

The child, boy or girl, who was God breathed into the itty bitty speck of DNA that became us, in all the uniqueness, that makes us...us.

The eating dog does everything possible to make us lose it, deny it, hide it.

The eating dog chews us up and spits us out leaving nothing but

The broken, the maimed, and the lost.

But, the eating dog forgets

Christ can, and will, and has muzzled his snarling mouth.  

Then, in the silence, if we only listen,

God will whisper:

“You are My beloved, My workmanship” over and over and over again.

Until we get it.

And with that love, old ideas made new can be embraced and shared.

The once forgotten chivalry, chastity, honesty, forgiveness, grace, and compassion,

Will grow and come along side of sacrifice, and honour, and dignity,

To fill a life that can wipe away the strife of this world.

The Code of Virtue, once the domain of noble knights and round tables, dragon slayers and soldiers, queens and kings, and Disciples of Christ, will once again rule the earth

Because the Holy Grail is with us.