"Christians joyfully and prayerfully building a caring and worshipping community"

From Our Rector . . .                                             

  Greetings to the people of St. Alban’s:

My wife, Kathy, our Yorkie, named Shiloh, and I often take walks down our country road in the
evenings. Our ears are filled with the songs of bullfrogs, cicadas, crickets and the other critters
fortissimo in volume. Each sings and plays their unique song as a part of the symphony of
creation. They are not self-conscious about it, holding back. As members of creation, they
really put their song out there into creation!

I too believe that each of us, as children of God, have a song that we have been given to sing
from above. Our songs come from the story of our lives. We all have a story to receive and a
story to sing.

I would like to think that our coming together as a priest and people are about supporting each
other to discover both our individual stories and Common Story in the Creating, Redeeming and
Sanctifying Spirit so that we can sing the songs we have been given to sing. There is a special
something that happens to us when we sing the Lord’s song that is given to us. We are
released from the restrictions that have barricaded us from experiencing and becoming vessels
of true Joy and Peace.

It is my prayer that that Joy and Peace will grow in each of us so that we can proclaim, like
Psalm 19 that the heavens and earth proclaim the glory of God, so that we in the words of John
Powell, discover that the glory of God is found in persons who are fully alive.
I give thanks for our coming together as priest and people. I’ll be interested in hearing your
story and song. Sing on!

Sacred Peace,
Mark