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Rector's Blog
Friday, January 19, 2007
St. Tim's has deep strengths. What are they?
Since coming in September, I've had the treat to visit almost all our covenant groups. I've visited people in home, hospital, office, and coffee shops. I've visited ministry groups from A (Altar Guild) to Y (Youth Ministry)--no Z yet. (My conclusion: I'm biased, but I think St. Tim's has got the best people!) Through all these experiences and meetings and conversations I've been listening. What in the world is God doing here? Who is God calling us to be and where is God calling us to go?
In Lent together we'll discover where God is calling us to go (more later on the parish-wide revisioning across successive Wednesday nights in Lent).
But as for what God is doing here now, I've discovered St. Tim's strengths; and across this time, our top 3 have emerged, and my conversations with staff and leaders have confirmed it.
Our top strength is joy. In our community there is great joy. We not only have we been given joy--it is a strength from God after all, not something that we've made--but it's also something we share among ourselves and with others with whom our lives come into contact. It would be one thing if we just had a sense of personal happiness that comes and goes. But there's joy. St. Tim's is a people who go through all of lifes ups and downs and yet have this joy going on, too. Not always happy, not always pain-free, not always fun, but joy: because our joy is a spill-over from God's joy in creating us. The strength we share at St. Tim's--joy--is because of his joy in creating us, and then coming us as he is. God is our source of joy, and thanks to be to God that joy is the first of St. Tim's strengths.
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