Happy Birthday

 The Episcopal Church is founded on scripture, tradition and reason. Tradition is older than scripture and includes symbols. The oldest symbol of Christ, older than the cross, is the candle. The light that shines in the darkness, that the darkness cannot overcome. Reason compels us to value the questions over the answers. It is questions that offer the opportunity for learning. We have a moral responsibility to learn and to pursue knowledge. 

O God of grace and glory
we remember before you this day
our brothers and sisters. 

We thank you for giving them to us,
their family and friends

to know and to love

as companions on our earthly pilgrimage. 

In your boundless compassion, 

console us who mourn.

Give us faith to see in death

the gate of eternal life, 

so that in quiet confidence 

we may continue our course on earth, 

until by your call

we are reunited with those

who have gone before us. 

Book of Common Prayer. 

it wasn't perfect, but it was damn close

it wasn't perfect, but it was damn close
it's the ordinary, that is so special
the mundane, so beautiful


we plant a seedling into the soil
and water it from rain that falls from the sky
the sun energizes it
when after a few days a flower blooms
we think what a great thing we have done

if we are lucky, We are observers.

thoughts come to us from where we don't know
the ideas are not ours, not even the words
what we think some other has planted
if you have a choice
be careful of your gardener

if We are lucky, we are observers