Link: http://www.wfn.org/2009/03/msg00267.html

Take this for what is it worth to you…

The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop
The Episcopal Church

The light returns and the days lengthen, even if it remains
startlingly dark as we rise these days – daylight savings time is not
always a blessing so early in the year! Christians, however, look for
light even in the midst of darkness, for we know that darkness will
not overcome it. The rising of the Son brings light into lives filled
with grief, agony, and despair. Are you searching for the light of new
life?

Easter recollects us and reorients us toward God’s eternal light of
truth and peace and love. The resurrection is the ultimate
proclamation that nothing can separate us from that light, not despair
or destruction or death. We see hints of that resurrection all around
us once our eyes have learned to look, and we continue to hope for its
fullness, for the blessing of a light so encompassing that there can
be no darkness or separation. Lent has been a willingness to
experience the darkness of our current separation and tune our
yearning for that light. Carry that yearning into Eastertide, and
beyond, that we and the world around us may know the blessing of the
light of Christ.

Easter 2009

When Presiding Bishop Schori begins to speak about light and darkness, I wonder if she truly comprehends the light.

John 3:19-21

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”

What light can there truly be within the hearts of those that sue Christians and enlist the aid of the American Judicial system in order to deny those who would worship God a place in which to gather; a place that many have gathered for most of their lives and call home? Their actions are done in the open but their motivations and intentions lie in the darkness of their souls.

If, as Presiding Bishop Schori says, “Easter reorients us toward God’s eternal light of truth and peace and love” then where is her love for the faithful and Biblically focused Christians within the Episcopal Church? Every day she takes steps to drive them further away but claims that they are welcome to stay and worship. How can disciples of Jesus worship amidst those who seek to redefine the nature and teaching of our Lord and Savior? Christ’s words hold the same meaning now as they did two thousand years ago so why the need to reinterpret them for the modern age.

As Lent passes we Believers should use this time to examine our self and our nature. We should come to know and abhor all the ways that we displease God with our short comings and worldly ways. This is a time to deny ourselves all things but the Gospel of Christ. We should fast but not on the Word of God. That should be our daily bread.

I will pray this Easter for the soul of our Presiding Bishop and I shall ask God to bring upon her the Spirit of Truth so that she may know the true and Living God who loves all men but hates our sin. Perhaps this Easter she will be reoriented by the light and it will shine upon her and she will break her spiritual fast and dine on message of the Gospel.