Its too Big

"It's too big." He looked me straight in the eyes. "I cant do it."

I didn't see him again for a fortnight except in the distance. He avoided me, and I contented myself with praying in faith that the Good Shepherd would find the last sheep in His own good time.

He did. Bill burst into my study one morning.

"Padre, why was the Chapel locked last night? I wanted to put an end to this frightful struggle I've been having with God, but couldn't get in. In the end I had to go back to my study, and kneel down there to accept Christ. Was that the right thing to do?"

As we chatted together it became quite obvious to me that he had made the real start in the Christian life. His new-found faith made him radiant. There was no possibility of missing the fact that Bill was a transformed person. Soon everyone knew and everyone remarked upon it.

His new faith had brought him intellectual conviction of the Truth, a thorough clean-up of moral failure, the certainty of forgiveness, and a God who was both Friend and Counsellor.