un- ; limited

un-answered emails
un-finished sermons
un-fulfilled promises
un-met expectations

I'm so humbled by this ministry. I am learning my limitations.

thank You God for most this amazing  

by e. e. cummings
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

contextual liturgy

I heard this story the other day, as I hanging out in the little gift shop at our parish.

The parishioner told me how her son had been involved in the youth group when he was young.  During his confirmation formation, everyone was giving a new BCP (Book of Common Prayer).  He was so excited that he read it cover to cover.

The following week, his class at school found two birds and had put them in the classroom for the children to watch.  Her son announced to the teacher that he would, the next day, bring in his new BCP and use the marriage liturgy to marry the two birds.  Everyone in his class got into this idea. 

Well, the next day when they go to school, both birds had died.  It was a sad moment, until the boy decided to turn to the burial liturgy.  They gave the birds a proper commendation and committal, using, of course, the BCP!