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Grant that we may know and understand what things we ought to do

Rev. Amy Welin (7 Pentecost/Proper 10): I have just returned from three weeks of intense study in the doctoral program at Virginia Theological Seminary. It is a wonderful program. In the middle of the first week, the light bulb in the bath burned out. That should be easy to fix, I thought. Finding another bulb in the utility closet, I spent about 30 minutes trying to figure out how to take the cover off the fixture! The quick fix became a project, because I had to figure out how to ask the (largely invisible) staff for assistance. Sometimes we do not know what to do, or how to proceed, and it is difficult. Sometimes we think we know what to do, and it is still more difficult than we had anticipated. Read More Read more • Leer más → “Grant that we may know and understand what things we ought to do”