Always more...

to be done,

to be learned,

to be appreciated,

to be said,

to take in...


Hard to believe our time here is almost ending.
One more full work day,
one more contact with former 'partners' tonight...
and always the feeling that our job here isn't done.

I found these words to be helpful 
in keeping perspective
and I'm including them here
to help me remember.

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 Gods 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 churches 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 Lords grace to enter 

and do the rest.

We may never see the end result, 

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.

Amen

Archbishop Oscar Romero