Lego Art

My 6-year-old is a master Lego builder. He carefully follows the detailed instructions and puts together sets far beyond his age range. If I don’t take a picture quickly though, the medications will already be underway.  After finishing a double decker London bus, he immediately wondered “what if the bus got a flat tire and broke down on the way to Paris?” And proceeded to take the bus apart.  Shouldn’t we put the bus on a shelf and just admire it?

No way! The bus is only the beginning. 

Jesus handed on the mission of spreading the Good News to the Apostles.  They were called to spread the Word to people all over, who had not seen the face of Christ or heard His voice. The Church instituted by Christ was not meant to sit immaculately dusted on a shelf. 

Church is messy, living, breathing. Church is bumping elbows up against our own uncomfortable biases. God has given us the pieces to be the Church the world needs today. What shall we build together? 

Prophets of a Future Not Our Own
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent
enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of
saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection.
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the Church’s mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master
builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
-Fr Ken Untener

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