St. Patrick

I started reading back through St. Patrick's Confession last night. There is so much wisdom and insight from early followers of Christ like Patrick. His passion for God and to see people encounter God is contagious. I was struck last night at his burden and passion to do what God wanted him to do, how ultimately that meant going back to the people of Ireland who had held him in captivity and sharing the love of Christ with them. "It was not really I but Christ the Lord who commanded me to come here and to stay with them for the rest of my life." It seems to me that the key to seeing people around us changed by the gospel is the willingness to invest wholly in them as Patrick did.