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Greetings, beloved in Christ. I hope that you are well on this day.
I want to take this opportunity to say to the Episcopal Church in Colorado, happy anniversary. This week marks the seventh anniversary of our ministry together, and it has been a joy for me to be your bishop in this time.
In these seven years, we have faced plenty of challenges: a global pandemic, economic crisis, struggling to understand what it means to love God and love our neighbor. And in that time, I have been inspired by this church's faithfulness, by its willingness to be in deep discernment and prayer, discerning what God's call is for us, by its committed disciples struggling every day to live their baptismal covenant in real time.
We have faced those challenges, and in the midst of them, the Holy Spirit has been with us. We have been blessed.
The Episcopal Church in Colorado is growing, not just in numbers, but also in discipleship, in faithfulness, in commitment to loving on another as God has loved us, and has shown us how to love in Christ Jesus.
These seven years seem, for me, to have flown by, and I'm definitely looking for what God has in store for us in the next seven years. But I want you all to know, I am humbled, I am blessed, and I am deeply, deeply grateful to be your bishop. Blessings.