Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
In Colossians 2, St. Paul tells us that we are to walk in Christ, “be rooted in him and built upon him and established in the faith as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one captivates you with an empty, seductive philosophy according to the tradition of men … and not according to Christ.”
The summer before beginning eighth grade, I landed my first job. For three months, I would serve as junior custodian at Fairview Community Center in the West Minneapolis suburbs. Day in and day out, for $3.85 an hour, I was charged with setting up tables and chairs for senior citizen lunches, sweeping floors, emptying trash and scrubbing surfaces (including endless, forever skin-shredding, room-length Venetian blinds).