Feast of St Barnabas today!These are just some thoughts I had about him over at the lovely Theology of Home. He is one of my favorites!!
“The day I finally did meet St Barnabas, I was, let’s just say, not at my fighting best. In fact, I was huddled in an old chair dragged close to the laboriously chugging window unit in the only air conditioned room of our old brick house in the city. I was nine months pregnant in a July heat wave trying to pray, but actually just wondering how in the world I was going to waddle my way through this day, from room to room, chasing a toddler and trying not to trip over all the legos that I could no longer stoop down to put away. How would I cook dinner in the 100 degree kitchen, or brave the stairs to the laundry room once more? The next twelve hours loomed large and forbidding. I sighed, turned the air conditioner knob up to 10, and opened my Bible. I was reading the Acts of the Apostles, and this was the moment I really saw St Barnabas. It was like he reached out of the book and pulled me in with enthusiastic urgency and said: “You WILL make it through this day……”
Thank you for educating me on this Saint!! Great writing!
Your piece on Barnabas, Denise, is indeed "encouraging," in ways large and small. Thank you! -- vsm (a/k/a grateful1; my new device insists on using one or the other name at will!)