He chooses me – he chooses you. But the final choice is still ours.

In short, you will claim you are empty handed. But you are not! None of us are. We have exactly what the disciples had; we have ourselves.

And when we face our doubts, and allow them to be the beginning of our search and not the end, and we allow that search to bring us here…

And the church invites us to do the same: To grow by seeing in the storms of our lives, what the disciples missed in theirs, that night.

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God is the one who after we have been smashed flat picks us up and gives us the power to begin again.

it is only when we seek, that we find, and only when we knock, that the door will be opened

We are all children of God, and no matter who we are where we come from language we speak or lifestyles we lead

God entrusts US all with the responsibility to care, protect, build up and ultimately heal our broken nation and world.

And when we take our baptisms seriously, seeing it not as a membership in a club but a mission to others, then we automatically begin

When we make this parish a place where all who seek the light are welcomed, then we become the people Isaiah proclaimed, & Matthew predicted

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