Well now I only have one day left.Apparently the parish I attend did not send anything in either.I hope in ten years our whole church will be deeply alive, Deeply alive as Jesus was to injustice,living as he lived non violently but never keeping silent,always speaking out so that peace has a chance.A deeply prayerful body of Christ praying and acting so that we will see our own mistakes more quickly. A reconciling church,so that oppressors,we and the other,the enemy we have not loved enough may awake to their,our oppressions,willing to stand actively beside the persecuted and confess our own missing the mark.
The 5 marks of mission have been around so long and we didn’t do too much for the Kindom and we missed the main thing. Now that we have included it at long last let’s see the difference it will make,if we dare.Then we may see with joy God making all things new in us and through us.Do we believe yet what we pray “Glory to God whose power working in us can do infinately more than we can ask or imagine.Dare we love that much.We did that Bible study on the marks last Lent,sadly we did it without the justice it was hardly a resurrection but then for a resurrection you have to suffer and die a bit too.
Kudos for the much reduced chuch house staff. May God Bless us and keep us and wake us up.Thanks for listening!
Nina C., Calgary
