PROPHETS OF A FUTURE NOT OUR OWN
It helps, now and then, to step back
And take the long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts.
It is beyond our vision.
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
The the kingdom always lies behond us.
No statement ways all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection...
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about:
We pant seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted,
Knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces effects beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything
And there is a sense of liberation realizing that.
This enables us to do something.
And to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, bit it is a beginning, a step along the way.
An opportunity for God's grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results...
We are prophets of a future not our own.
Oscar Romero, Archbishop of El Salvador,
assasinated on March 24, 1980
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