Namaskar, namaste, johar
It has been 7 wonderful years that the Episcopal Diocese of WNC has
been coming here – and in our faith tradition, when two people want
to marry, they make vows to one another: For better for worse, for
richer for poorer in sickness and in health. We commit to staying
together, Our companion relationship is like a marriage.We stay
together because, because God has called us to be together and has
sanctified our partnership.
Our two Dioceses have certainly been through many things together;
through the world economic crisis, hurricanes, the deaths of our
friends and family members, and sicknesses of all kinds. And we have
been together in joy watching the children grow up and the Shanti Gria
campus grow and the number of people who want to learn about and
practice God’s healing ministries. We have seen a woman ordained in
your diocese and the first African American female ordained in our
diocese.
We are called by God to continue to serve the children, to feed the
hungry, to give clothing to the naked and shelter to the homeless. We
must continue to build schools and libraries, health clinics and eye
clinics, and we must educate our children in English so they can go
out into the world to advance their studies and succeed in the
language of the current world.
God calls some of us to be doctors and teachers and clergy and day
laborers, yet God calls all of to be ministers to God’s people; to
serve our neighbors, to be advocates for the voiceless, to give a cup
of cold water to the thirsty, to sit quietly with the dying, and to
give love to the hopeless. Everyone here today and everyone in our
towns and villages and cities is called to these sacred ministries.
May God continue to bless you in your ministries, and may the prayers
of the 17,000 members of the Episcopal Diocese of WNC strengthen you
if you falter. Because the prayers of you and your Diocese strengthen
us. Thank you.
--
annie fritschner
It has been 7 wonderful years that the Episcopal Diocese of WNC has
been coming here – and in our faith tradition, when two people want
to marry, they make vows to one another: For better for worse, for
richer for poorer in sickness and in health. We commit to staying
together, Our companion relationship is like a marriage.We stay
together because, because God has called us to be together and has
sanctified our partnership.
Our two Dioceses have certainly been through many things together;
through the world economic crisis, hurricanes, the deaths of our
friends and family members, and sicknesses of all kinds. And we have
been together in joy watching the children grow up and the Shanti Gria
campus grow and the number of people who want to learn about and
practice God’s healing ministries. We have seen a woman ordained in
your diocese and the first African American female ordained in our
diocese.
We are called by God to continue to serve the children, to feed the
hungry, to give clothing to the naked and shelter to the homeless. We
must continue to build schools and libraries, health clinics and eye
clinics, and we must educate our children in English so they can go
out into the world to advance their studies and succeed in the
language of the current world.
God calls some of us to be doctors and teachers and clergy and day
laborers, yet God calls all of to be ministers to God’s people; to
serve our neighbors, to be advocates for the voiceless, to give a cup
of cold water to the thirsty, to sit quietly with the dying, and to
give love to the hopeless. Everyone here today and everyone in our
towns and villages and cities is called to these sacred ministries.
May God continue to bless you in your ministries, and may the prayers
of the 17,000 members of the Episcopal Diocese of WNC strengthen you
if you falter. Because the prayers of you and your Diocese strengthen
us. Thank you.
--
annie fritschner
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