Sabbatical – 12 Weeks of Renewal
On Easter Monday, I begin a 12-week sabbatical as a time of renewal after nine years in the Diocese of Georgia as Canon to the Ordinary. Sabbaticals are intended as a balanced time of rest and renewal often with a given focus or purpose. As one serving in church leadership, I plan for this time to assist me in preparing anew for serving the church at this present moment. That means I will balance times of rest with both immersion training in Spanish language and time reading and reflecting on sharing the Good News in the context of central and south Georgia today.
I will have times of just ceasing to work, so Victoria and I have taken Kanuga up on their generous offer to for free room and board in Easter Week so that we can begin with a pause. We also look forward to studying in a language school in Heredia, Costa Rica and then our daughter, Griffin, joining us in Panama for a week in which we will get to further use our Spanish. I have also set aside reading to do during the sabbatical and will be writing on evangelism as I look toward a more realistic way of discussing how Episcopalians can share the Good News of Jesus with those we already know well.
This is my first opportunity for a sabbatical after 19 years of ordained ministry. I look with hope to the example of colleagues who have taken this time of rest and renewal and returned ready to engage in some of the same problems with new perspective and energy. I give thanks to the Diocese for this benefit of my work on your behalf and especially for Bishop Benhase who has made sabbatical provisions normative for full-time priests.
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In the meantime, we enter Holy Week, which seems the perfect preparation for a sabbatical. For in Holy Week, we see how the grace of God we enjoy is not because of what we have done or can do for God. The grace, love, mercy, forgiveness, and joy we share is because what God has done for us. So the life of faith is not about earning or deserving that love, but embracing it more fully.
peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Canon Frank Logue, Canon to the Ordinary
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