Countdown to Convention

Good Shepherd's delegate and I are heading out on Thursday morning, for what, we hope, will be either an inspiring convention, or an uneventful one. Most of us don't need more drama in our lives. Life presents enough conflict without needlessly creating more.

But maybe I'm being a little cynical. And a tad disingenuous.

What I'm REALLY hoping to see is a re-energized church, a church that's on fire for the kingdom of God, inspired by a holy vision of what God wants for us and the world. We have a wonderful opportunity to come together under the canopy of grace and show others that God can and does work with disparate people.

I'm hoping that we can work together in a common mission, bound together in baptism, as sisters and brothers, co-heirs with Christ.

But we'll see.