Have a little faith

Mitch Albom, the man behind Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven,  was on campus this evening as part of the campus speaker series to speak about his recent book, Have a Little Faith. In attending the program, I'm not sure what I was expecting to hear Mitch speak about and didn't even know until I got there that he was speaking about his book. But as I sat and listened over the course of an hour to Mitch speak about his 8-year long visits with a Rabbi from his church, the eulogy he finally gave when that Rabbi passed away keeping a promise he made 8 years ago, and of a criminal who turned his life around and eventually became a pastor in a church nobody cared for in Detroit, I found myself touched and humbled to be in his presence. 

I also realized that while sitting in a large auditorium, in a dark, crowded room, all eyes and ears glued to the man who is not only an author, but a sports aficionado, that the message he was delivering spoke more to my heart and my faith than any message I'd heard in my Catholic church from a priest in the last, oh, decade? Funny how that is. Funny how I have found myself more and more finding my faith, my Christianity, and my spirituality more ignited outside the Church than within it. I've been feeling this tug as of late that I need to find a new home where my faith feels more alive and on fire. And tonight's program reaffirmed that need.

So we will see where the road goes...In any event, based on the fact that I was touched and moved by Mitch's talk, I imagine the book on which the talk was based is worth the read. So check it out if you're looking for something a little uplifting!

Cheers.