Continue to imagine ET, the visitor from outer space mentioned yesterday, as it proceeds to investigate the Christian faith by viewing how you live out your faith.
Yesterday you made a list of the many activities you performed in a week and noted how the anthropologist, ET, might interpret those events in an attempt to understand what Christianity is all about.
Now, today, using that same list but assuming that ET has been given the privilege of observing not only your behavior but also your emotional response to those actions, continue to consider your list. Look back over your list and note how each of your weekly activities made you feel and how you chose to respond to those feelings. Take a few of those events that generated the strongest feelings and consider how your faith shaped how you chose to respond. If, for example, someone made you angry by their behavior, how does your faith shape how you choose to respond? Or, how does your faith shape your response to a hungry individual you see on the street? How does your faith shape your response when a committee fails to fulfill their responsibilities? How does your faith sustain you during times of anxiety?
In sum, how would you want this outsider, who was able to see your behavior and sense your emotional response to it, to interpret what you did as a reflection of your faith. When both your actions and your emotional response are consistent reflections of what you believe, you will have a sense of comfort with who you are.
