Me Too
Writer Anne Lamott says that the most powerful sermon in the world is two words: “Me too.”
Me too.
When you’re struggling,
when you are hurting,
wounded, limping, doubting,
questioning, barely hanging on,
moments away from another relapse,
and somebody can identify with you—
someone knows from the temptations that are at your door,
somebody has felt the pain that you are feeling,
when someone can look you in the eyes and say, “Me too,”
and they actually mean it—
it can save you.
When you aren’t judged,
or lectured,
or looked down upon,
but somebody demonstrates that they get it,
that they know what it’s like,
that you aren’t alone,
that’s “me too.”
Paul does not say, “To the strong I become strong.”
He only says, “To the weak I am weak.”
Paul understands that the power of the Eucharist comes from its weakness, not its strength.
Later he writes to the Corinthians, “Who is weak, and I do not feel weak?” (2 Corinthians 11:29). At the heart of the church, in the soul of the Eucharist, is identification with the suffering of another human being.
To begin to understand the Eucharist, to begin to grasp the Father’s giving of the firstborn son, is to feel what others feel, to suffer when they suffer, to rejoice when they rejoice. The church says to the world, “Me too.”
Us too.
Rob Bell, from Jesus Wants to Save Christians