Mike G.

I heard the news late,

It sounded like a confusing situation, a preacher whom had inspired me before, had inspired thousands of others had been exposed as a fraud.

But to fake cancer?

How? Why?

I thought about it and decided to wait until I had heard more details from the church.

The whole truth was even sadder.

A very public example of how a duality lifestyle had woven a web of lies to conceal a festering boil of darkness.

Yet, in this light, the church stood strong.

I saw strong, kind and holy men who had done nothing wrong, humble themselves to public scrutiny. All because they had trusted one of their own, their own family.

I saw the pain in their eyes as they told they world about the fall of their friend, their brother, their son.

I hurt with them.

Yet in the darkness, in their pain, I see the church reach out to the lost, the world so twisted that they barely understood the underlying issue behind the lie of the fall.

I'll pray for them, stand with them, love the sinner and not the sin.

Stand in those shoes, are they not strangely familiar?

Have you not told a lie that got out of hand?

I'll only speak for myself.

But I dare not cast the first stone, people in broken, cracked houses should not do anything but patch things up in their own lives.

I'll pray for you Mike.