As some of you know, I’ve been obsessing about starting a blog for the last two months. Today, I finally did it!
There are less than two days left before I leave for South Africa. Honestly, it doesn’t feel like I am going, expect for the occasional adrenaline rush of excitement. I have been waiting years to go to South Africa and can’t believe that it’s actually happening.
For me there are two things that have come to represent my trip.
The first is Archbishop Oscar Romero’s prayer. Each time I read this prayer I learn something. It represents the person I strive to be.
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise
that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection.
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the Church’s mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
The second is:
Have fun and be safe. Can't wait for the next installment:)
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