...but now I see!

When we speak, in our Parish Vision, of the “transforming love and justice of God”, we speak of the same kind of dramatic change experienced in moving from being blind to being sighted.

This is not a transformation reserved exclusively for those who have not yet come to Jesus. Those of us who walk confidently in our faith can still be transformed in this way, as if we suddenly receive sight.

Even Saint Paul walked confidently in his faith on the Road to Damascus. He later described himself as “blameless” yet utterly transformed by the Christ. His experience was one of first becoming fully aware of his blindness, blind to all he did not know. Then, after time he gained his sight, a new sight.

This transition can be scary because we don’t know what it will be like: to see things in a new light, with new sight. Perhaps not a single word will change in our Vision and Mission statements, perhaps we will receive the gifts of seeing things in a new way. I don’t know.

What I do know is that the whole idea of unwrapping our Vision is a whole lot less scary when we do it together.

Please keep next week’s Unwrapping the Vision in your prayers; praying that together we will discern God’s will for us as a congregation. And pray for Archdeacon Katherine Bourbonniere’s leadership amongst us. Also, if you can attend any part of it, please do.

In my experience God’s will is voiced in unexpected and often surprizing ways. It might be something you say or do that will point our efforts in the right direction. It might be that simple observation that the emperor has no clothes that helps us see God’s will more clearly.

Let the scales fall from our eyes, let us see more clearly, let us together discern God’s will.