Most of us know the old “joke” suggested in the picture: "An optimist sees the glass as half-full. A pessimist sees it half-empty. (And an engineer sees the glass twice as large as it needs to be.)” That joke, in my mind,

We continue to move forward in our “Season of Discovery”!

• The timeline is up, and people are filling in the butcher paper with comments and events! But there’s always more that can be said. For example, as I write this,

"Be Afwaid, be vewy vewy Afwaid! Youth Sunday’s a-comin’!"— Elmer Fudd

NOT! — Fr. Gary (who remembers that Elmer Fudd was . . . . a fuddy-duddy!)

As I mentioned in my sermon on February 10, all the parishes and missions in the diocese are asked to administer the "U.S. Congregational Vitality Survey" on March 31st.

In last month’s “Sheepskin" article, reflecting on the Roman god Janus, I wrote that now is our time to begin journeying together, I would like to comment a bit more fully on that this month, pointing to two specific ways we’ll be doing that: the “Season of Discovery” and the Invite/Welcome/Connect initiative!

Many of you may know that the month of January was named for the Roman god, Janus. He was, (according to the Wikipedia entry,) "the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings.