Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS THE LORD TOOK HOLD OF BUGBROOKE
Noel started to visit Rufus and Jess at his mum’s. One day
Noel and John Thom came in when they were meditating.
Noel chatted with Rufus but Gilly, his adopted brother, sat in
the lotus position, oblivious.
“Ere! — Gilly, bro,’ said John, ‘don’t you think you’re being
rather rude?’
‘I reckon he’s achieving more through meditation, John, than
you are through talking,’ Rufus objected angrily.
‘You really ought to respect our friends here,’ said Noel
quietly. ‘You ought to apologise, bro.’
John humbled himself and apologised. This amazed Rufus
and Gilly: these guys were crashing through the barriers. They
could relate.
Rufus was in the back garden one sunny day pruning his
‘grass’ plants when Noel appeared. A stab of guilt hit him
and he dropped all the leaves.
‘Why should this Christian guy make me feel unclean?’ he
thought as he ran around in a temper, picking them up.
‘Praise the Lord!’ said Noel.
‘Yeh, but why don’t you just praise Krishna as well?’ answered
Rufus.
But Noel would never argue. He listened as Rufus enthused
about his books on astral projection and his times of fasting
and meditation. Rufus felt someone appreciated him. He began
to think that these were the most solid guys he’d met.
He’d seen Gurus, talked to Zen masters and heard the pioneers
of the LSD movement, but these Christians had something
extra. Rufus and his friends spent ages trying to work
out what it was. In the end they put it down to faith. These
other guys had powers and abilities, but they hadn’t got faith.
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