The Rector's Ramblings...July 2, 2009

I hope that you will all join us for worship at 10 AM this Sunday when we have our Annual Celebration of our Country.  As always there will be wonderful music, the celebration of the Holy Eucharist and a time of fellowship on the lawn following the worship.  From Monday to Thursday of this week I have had the privilege of offering the invocation at the North Carolina House of Representatives.  Each of those prayers has been concerned with those powerful "unalienable rights" of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" found in the Declaration of Independence. 

As we prepare to celebrate the 233^rd birthday of our country let us offer prayers of thanksgiving for these rights and remember those signers of the Declaration of Independence, including William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and John Penn of North Carolina, who willingly risked all that they had to make these rights available to all. Let us pledge ourselves never to take them for granted.  May our lives be a manifestation of the true meaning of liberty that calls us to reach out in love and concern for others.