October/November 2018 Newsletter

From Your Rector

As you know, the vestry, with the help of all of you, recently adopted a new mission statement. “We seek to share the unconditional love of God.” I’d like to reflect on what loving unconditionally really means.

First, only God can love unconditionally all the time – the rest of us try to emulate God in this respect. As humans, we sometimes fail and when we do, we go to God (and sometimes the other person) and ask for forgiveness. God forgives us and we experience, once again, God’s unconditional love.

Our life’s journey is that of seeking to love others unconditionally, and we hope we grow closer to that destination every day. Loving unconditionally means that we love people even when they bug us or disagree with us or hurt us. We love people who are different from us, as well as those who are more like us. We love poor people, rich people, hard-working people, people who don’t work hard, smart people, less-than-smart people, good people, not-so-good people. We love people even when they do the opposite of what we’d like them to do. When we love unconditionally, there are no outsiders, and, most importantly, there are no outcasts. We, like Jesus, love the “lepers” as much as we love the “Nicodemuses.”
I am glad the vestry has chosen this as our mission. It is the core of Christianity. The world will know us as Christians by the depth and breadth of our love.
Randi+ 

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