I pray with an aching heart and yet hope that seems a little dim these days but a hope that will not die.

I pray for a truly inclusive church. It is so easy to exclude and be comfortable.

I pray for church where Christians stand shoulder to shoulder in service ministry after the pattern of Jesus and not wasting time glaring at each other over issues that are old and irrelevant to faithful discipleship and ministry in the now.

I pray for passion and challenge in the gathered life of the church, instead of the tepid, the boring, and same old same old.

I pray for a new sense of the excitement and the spirit of the Gospel where there is so much living and renewable fuel to be extracted for the present and the future instead of the dead wood, the non-renewable fuel for past issues, dead doctrines, and crumpling institution.

I pray for companions on the Way, not just nice folk with whom to keep up a building and a budget.

And since the church is aging, what better way to start than a grey revolution, the fellowship of St Anna and Simeon who recognized who and what mattered and didn’t get bogged down in who and what didn’t matter.

God bless us all.
Dorothy Daly

The Rev Dorothy I Daly, priest on pension, retired doesn’t fit the bill.
Elliot Lake ON

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