From the Rector

Dear Friends in Christ,

As I watch the news and pray over the weeks and months to come I find myself with two competing impulses. The first is to think of all the ways to get busy and respond to what is happening - to control things as much as I can. The second is to sort of resign myself to things unfolding as they will and being as calm and irenic about the changes and challenges of the day.

Of course, the right balance is most likely somewhere in between. What I notice though is that I have little patience or energy for the middle ground. I feel like I am longing for being immensely busy or intensely at rest. I think this is a symptom of our times right now - we are pushed by circumstance into resignation or reaction. The opportunity is to figure out how best to respond from a place of peace.

How do we let our souls find enough rest to ensure that when we choose to speak, act, or work that we are doing it from a place of hopeful assurance of things unseen. What is most unseen right now is the future - not just the distant future but next week or next month. Honestly though, is that so different from any other time in our life? It is the conceit of humanity to assume that we know what is to come.

We never know what is to come - but we can know what is to be. What will be is love. What will be is faith, hope, and charity. What will be is all that has ever been - the immensity of God's promise. That promise is not that we will know for sure what will happen but that whatever happens we are loved, held, and cherished. So let us rest in that - let us relax into the loving mercy of God that we might act when called, speak when led, and work always for the Kingdom.

Yours in Christ,
Fr Robert