Closer than I was.

It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.

The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts; it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work.Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us.

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This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.

- prayer of Archbishop Romero


And now the question isn't will you...no, what I want to know is: when?
And if it's one day or a million, I will wait for you till then.
So I hold my hope in your words and in the promises you've made.
There's not one that you have broken; there's not one I did not take.

- Third Day

Cheshire cat, hey, smile wide
raise you twenty on the other side

- JC

Be back in a few.