The Fourth Week of Easter

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Dear friends this week I come to your from Mount Carmel Monastery in Niagara Falls, Canada where I'm gathered with all the bishops who serve across Canada in the Anglican Church. It's a privilege to be here this morning, I had breakfast with Naiboth, the Bishop who serves in Rupert's Land, basically that of Winnipeg; with Sandra, the Bishop of Nova Scotia, PEI; with Jared, a Bishop who lives and serves in Rankin Inlet; with Anna Martha, a Bishop who lives and serves in Iqaluit; with John, the Bishop in New Westminster. Think of the circle we did around that table, all around our beautiful country, from coast to coast to coast.

Right across the street from the monastery is the Niagara River, and just a few hundred metres that way it comes crashing quite spectacularly down in Niagara Falls. Which is helpful to me this week, much of the work we're doing this week is looking at the pathways, the transformation task force of the National Church - looking at how we change how we govern ourselves, how we share our money, how we do the mission that God is callling us to do in the world in a less colonial and more inclusive and life-giving way. It's helpful that we have this beautiful river behind us as we do that work.

Sometimes, I think we forget as leaders that it is not our job to stop the river of change but rather to see the new things that God is doing in our midst. And the new thing is often more beautiful, more powerful, more life-giving than we could ever ask or imagine.

And so my friends, this Easter season, trust that Christ is risen, Christ is risen indeed; that God is everywhere and always in our midst doing a new thing, and that when things seem to be crashing down, there is always beauty and life and resurrection in that. 

Hallelujah, Christ is risen, Christ is risen indeed. Hallelujah.

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