Connections

We pride ourselves about how “connected” we are.  “It’s who you know, not what you know,
that counts, son…”  (A capital piece of advice, that, for producing stooges in bondage to foreign
masters who did their homework.)  We are the most connected generation ever, by some counts:
cell phones, text messages, Instant Messages, Internet,  E-mail, I-pods…every possible
combination of someone interrupting any quiet moment we might chance to have.

But do the connections we have count?  Does our quality of bonding to one another match the
ways and means we have to stay in touch?  For many families I know, that is often far from
true.  The more we have and the finer our resources, too often, the more we become absorbed
in our own particular pursuits and pleasures.   Mom ends up having to E-mail the kids to get
them to come down for supper…more than once….

The Church, like every family in the land, has the same worry.  So many of us will take to the
roads and the airways in the months to come, we will travel and adventure and vacation.  And I
am one who is ALL for that.  We need the change, the stimulation, the excitement and the rest,
if we can get it.  

But STAY CONNECTED.  Your church home—St. Mark’s—will gather weekly and just about
daily in prayer and sacrament, in visiting and studying, in serving our neighbors, and meeting new
neighbors we want to make friends and brothers.  Stay part of that: keep us in your prayers,
every day.  Look us up on the web (it changes every day)!  Give the church a call or send us a
card from wherever you are.  Keep in touch.  

STAY CONNECTED to your God.  (“The duty of all Christians is to follow Christ; to come
together week by week for corporate worship; and to work, pray and give for the spread of the
kingdom of God.”  BCP, 856)  Your prayer needs to connect you to your Lord every day.  
Every Sunday you need to present yourself  before the Living One, to honor him for his gift of
life to you.  Observance of the Fourth Commandment is not an optional suggestion or a seasonal
convenience.  Bring me your Sunday bulletins from the churches you worship in, and let me
know what you liked, and didn’t.  (Don’t tell me about how short the sermons are up North or in
California—look what that produces….)

Stay connected: it is who you know, in the end of days, that counts.

                                             In Christ,
                                             
                                             Frank  Fuller+
Rectitudes~~~
Thoughts for June, 2008