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Greetings, beloved in Christ. I hope that you are well on this day, and I hope you are making the most of this season of Lent. It is my prayer that your Lenten observance is already yielding fruits of the Spirit. Today, I am asking you for your prayers. Prayers for me, and for every bishop in the Episcopal Church, as we will be gathering next week for our spring House of Bishops meeting. At this meeting, we will be welcoming several new bishops to the House, including our own Jeremiah Williamson, who will be consecrated this weekend. As many of you know, our current presiding bishop, Michael Curry, will be stepping down from his position, and a new presiding bishop will be elected at our general convention in June. And so I ask your prayers for our discernment that God would raise up the presiding bishop that we need for this time, and that we would be wise enough to see God’s choosing.
I also ask your prayers as the House continues to discern what it means to be a leader and to serve the church in this new, strange church landscape that we inhabit. Like you, we are in the process of waiting for the Holy Spirit to reveal to us what is meet and right as we seek to promote the gospel of Christ in this world, to continue to live out the tenet of our own baptism, and our call to lead our diocese. We bishops are, in fact, human, and we rely heavily on your prayers and on the grace of God to do this work that we do. And so I am asking you to lift us up in your prayers. Pray for us, pray for our work, and pray that we have the grace to see God’s vision for us unfolding, even now. Blessings.
