Dear Friends,
This Sunday marks the beginning of a new program year, the beginning of my fifteenth year as your rector, and the beginning of Trinity’s 190th year of mission and ministry. Beginnings are sacred gifts. Gifts filled with possibilities and dreams, with opportunities and hope. We stand at the threshold of a new beginning and the abundance that it offers us. All that can be and will be done in and through the love of Christ.
There is indeed an energy and excitement with the staff and vestry. We feel the Spirit working in our midst, and we can’t wait to see where the Spirit will lead us in the coming year.
Henri Nouwen writes,
We must learn to live each day, each hour, yes, each minute as a new beginning, as a unique opportunity to make everything new. Imagine that we could live each moment as a moment pregnant with new life. Imagine that we could live each day as a day full of promises. Imagine that we could walk through the new year always listening to the voice saying to us: “I have a gift for you and can’t wait for you to see it!” Imagine.
I invite you to join us this Sunday, as together, we cross the threshold to a new beginning that we may receive the gift that God has prepared for us, as the people of Trinity Church, and that we may go forth boldly with the promises of God and the transformative message of Good News.
Peace and blessings to all,
The Rev. Paul Jeanes III, Rector