The Rev. Donald A. Davidson – Anglican Priest
Anglican Church of Canada
“God never seems particularly interested in perfect people. Instead, God gathers ordinary people—quirky people, imperfect people, oddballs of every conceivable description—and through them accomplishes extraordinary things.”
Sometimes the greatest miracle of the Church is that God continues to call ordinary people—and that some of us are still willing to listen.
The best moments are usually not the ones we planned. They arrive unexpectedly—a sunset, a conversation, a loon calling across the lake, a campfire where stories become progressively better with each retelling.
Gratitude is not the denial of imperfection. It is the recognition of gift.
The point of a walk is not to arrive. It is to notice.
The gardens are growing. The farmers’ markets are filling with colour. And perhaps our souls grow in much the same way—quietly, steadily, one ordinary day at a time.
The Church’s long green season teaches us to notice grace not only in dramatic mountaintop moments, but in ordinary evenings and quiet beauty.
The world invites us to hurry. The dock invites us to sit still. Somewhere between the water, the wind, and the evening sky, the soul remembers how to rest.
Because sometimes the most faithful thing we can do is simply stop striving long enough to remember that the world continues turning quite beautifully without our constant supervision.
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And perhaps that is how belonging often happens.
Unexpectedly. Over years of shared prayers, coffee hours, griefs, laughter, committee meetings, casseroles, and ordinary faithfulness.