Meditation from the Rev. Ceci Duke, Rector, Christ Church, Norcross

Ceci sent the following meditation to our team today. It's something we should all remember as we try to do our best to help our brothers and sisters in Haiti, and elsewhere. Terry.

The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts,

It is even beyond our wisdom.

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 another way of

Saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us.

No statement says all that could be said.

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

No program accomplishes our mission.

No set of goals and objectives includes everything.

That is what we are about.

We plant the seeds that one day will grow.

We water the seeds already planted,

Knowing that they hold future promise.

We lay foundations that will need further development.

We provide yeast that produces effects

Far beyond our capabilities.

We cannot do every thing, 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, no messiahs.

We are prophets of a future not our own.