Riding the wave into 2019

The 2006 Christmas season was a very tumultuous one for me.  It was really the beginning of the end of my time in the Episcopal Church and my own future was very much uncertain at that point.  I remember putting away my Christmas decorations early in January of 2007, and as I did, I wondered to myself what life would be like for me when I took those decorations back out in a year.  Where would I be?  What would I be doing?  Would everything be different?  

Ever since then it has been a private tradition of mine to wonder those things when putting away my decorations. It also allows me to be a bit reflective on what has occurred over the past year, to sit back and look at how God has worked, often in ways I never could have expected.  As I look back on 2018 I just keep thinking, “Wow, what a ride it has been!”

Quite a bit has happened in the past year.  When we rang in 2018 I was still in my first year as Rector of All Saints, and I felt like I was still learning the ropes and holding on for dear life.  Along the way we have seen some wonderful things happen.  We have brought in a number of new families which has increased our Sunday school program from one room to three and enabled us to have our very first Christmas Pageant.  

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