I wrote this in the comments at Fr. Jake's in June of last year:
Everyone, please! Love them anyway. What happened to that? We do not give up hope. "Our [help] is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth."
"The Episcopal Church will have no more gay bishops." Maybe for today, but we don't give up hope. Love them anyway.
It's OK to feel sad; it OK to be very disappointed, but love them anyway.
I stand in sadness and solidarity with my GLTB brothers and sisters. Love them anyway.
Pray for Bishop Jefferts Schori. Remember how the Pharisees so often thought they had Jesus boxed in. Perhaps God has a way out of this that we can't yet see. Love them anyway.
Forgive me if someone has already said this, because I have not read every comment. It's a long thread.
janeboatler | 06.21.06 - 8:09 pm | #
That's my old blogger name before I transformed myself into Grandmère Mimi. I'm sorry, but I don't know who said the words in the quote about no more gay bishops in the Episcopal church. "Love them anyway" still stands.
There are some conservatives who are saying that the "Gang of Four's" report on General Convention's response to The Windsor Report "locks us in" and now enforces a moratorium.
ReplyDeleteLove them anyway, I say.
Sigh....The Windsor Report doesn't lock us into anything, except in their heads. Unfortunately, my bishop is "locked in" in his head, too.
ReplyDeleteAs a palate cleanser you might want to take a look at What Would Gamaliel Do? by Tobias and read the comments too. Their words draw us back to the God-center.
Some conservatives are saying the glass is half full - I say gays and lesbians are still thirsting for the day when the church will offer a small glass of cold water.
ReplyDeleteAnn, yes.
ReplyDeleteHow long, O Lord, will you look on?
Rescue me from their ravages,
my life from the lions!
Then I will thank you in the great congregation;
in the mighty throng I will praise you.
Psalm 35:17-18
Love them anyway, amen.
ReplyDeleteBut now I'll become a kind nag. When a member of an evangelical church, I was uncomfortable with how convenient it appeared to be to not love or pray for a non-admired leader (e.g., Clinton), and now I find that same personal dis-ease on the "other side". I've attended Episcopalian services for nearly 3 years now, and I don't think I have ever heard Bush's name, apart from inclusion in the bulletin, mentioned in the prayers of the people which strikes me as odd as not mentioning ++Katharine's name.
Love and pray fro them anyway.
KJ, you're right. Bush is now controversial, even in my very conservative surroundings, so he is not mentioned. We do need to pray for him by name. I used to do that every day, but I've gotten away from the habit. I'll get back to it. Thanks for the reminder.
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't know for sure who said it first, but I believe that +Gene Robinson used it to great effect last year, didn't he?
ReplyDeletekj, we don't always hear Bush's name pronounced, but we frequently pray for 'the president."
So odd. We pray every Sunday for George, our president and James, our governor, yes by name. Even though I personally disagree with their policies, there's no reason to exclude them from the prayers of the people. And, yes, we pray for Rowan, ABC, Katharine, our presiding bishop and Thomas, our bishop... plus the Anglican Cycle of Prayer and our diocesan cycle of prayer.
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