Summoning the Unfit Misfit

My sustained reflections are still dwelling on the issue of returning to God over this season of Lent. God calls us to return to him, but not everyone finds himself in a state worthy of such a return.

Some find themselves inadequate. Others find themselves incapacitated. Yet others do not think that this invitation is issued for them; it's always for others but not for them. Still others find that they have always been the misfits of society who have never quite fit into any given order; why then would they find a place reserved for them at the table of Christ? If you find yourself having just read something here that cuts into the heart of your life's concern, then you are the precisely the person that Christ is summoning to his table of grace. You are precisely the person he would pick out from a crowd just to tell you, "Come, follow me". The table of grace is a table for the broken and the misfits, not a table for the mighty and the lofty. Come, return to the Lord.