Repairing The Breach

Personal Reflection I love visual art. Poetry. Theatre. I love soccer. Motorcycles. Drumming. I am a priest with a life-changing faith who finds it difficult to pray. I am totally unphased by speaking to large crowds, but I love being alone. I am a rough-hewn container of miscellaneous contradictions. But aren’t we all? I have travelled the world and seen the Anglican church at work with ABM, bringing people to freedom from many captivities. Physical and spiritual hunger, illiteracy, domestic violence, cultural genocide, climate disaster. I have also seen the church complicit in keeping people in bondage of various types. The church is also a bundle of complex contradictions. It always has been. Into this breach steps Jesus. Passionately active and compassionately protective. Jesus gathers us and heals us and then challenges us to step out and do the same. We try, we fail. We are regathered and sent out again. We understand that we are made in the image of God, and, as St Augustine said, “you have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you.” 5 Green Water - Carol Aust 62