Thank you!
People keep asking if we’ve settled in, become comfortable with the church and the city, established a routine—if we’ve begun to live into this new call—and the very short answer is, yes, yes absolutely! The rectory is indeed becoming home to us, and we’re enjoying the process of discovery in this particular corner of the world. We have been well-welcomed. I am meeting wonderful people who do amazing things, and names are still a blur to me at the moment, but I am making progress. I beg your patience.
In these coming months, it is my prayer that I get to know you and you get to know me; that you share what you love about this amazing place. I want to hear stories. I want to hear how you experience God on this ground that has borne witness to the light for more than 250 years. I want to know why you came in the first place and what draws you back. I will ask lots of questions and I encourage you to do the same of me. Episcopalians are a necessarily broad lot, and it is our wonderful diversity, born from the very beginning of our tradition, that makes for a rich and beautiful faith. I look so forward to hearing the stories of light and life in this place and to learning how the Spirit has been and is still forming us, calling us to build the Kingdom in wonderful and courageous ways.
So, let me say thank you for welcoming Bob and me with such graciousness. Thank you for calling us into this community. Thank you for your willingness to live into who God calls you to be. Thank you for being The Falls Church. May our ministry together be long and fruitful.
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