Dear Friends
Following is the message I am sending out to my current parish tomorrow. May "The Power of Hope" (Rose Parade theme this year) be with you always!
“May the God of hope fill us with all
joy and peace in believing through the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13
As I was walking home from the market
a couple of weeks ago, this mailbox and its message caught my attention. It made me think of this quote (from “Mere
Christianity”), for the January 2nd entry in my book of C.S. Lewis
meditations:
"The real problem of the Christian
life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the very moment
you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you
like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in simply in shoving
them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of
view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter voice come flowing in.
We can only do it for a moment at
first. But from those moments a new sort of life will be spreading through our
system, because now we are letting Christ work at the right part of us. It is
the difference between paint, which is merely laid on the surface, and a dye or
stain which soaks right through."
You and I may not literally wake
up happy every morning, but that is certainly the place we hope to reach at some point during the day. May Christ’s deep love soak right
through you in new and surprising ways today, and each day of this new
year.
Fr. John
Interim Rector
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