In the early fall - the picture to the right was the image that greeted us in the life and work of Minnedosa United Church ... we were fixing, cleaning and renewing the glorious stained glass windows on the west wall of our church ... The centre window, not show here - was an image of Jesus knocking at the door ...The windows had been dedicated in memory of the pioneers who settled Minnedosa 50 years earlier. With the help of bequests from two saints who had gone before us, and the hard work and generosity of people in Minnedosa and beyond - we had a two year period of renovations:
- the basement (new kitchen and washrooms with a revamped Centre)
- the windows
- the bell tower
Today those renovations have simply gone up in smoke ... makes you wonder why we should bother ... why put the work and effort into anything when in the blink of an eye a cold and calculating act can rob a comunity of its legacy ...
Yet, to do nothing - to sit on our hands and to not take a risk is letting the cold and calculating among us triumph ... as the saying goes: all that evil requires to triumph is for people of good faith (and conscience) to do NOTHING.
In Minnedosa, we can shrug our shoulders ... count our losses and take stock of our blessings and get on with the task ahead ... the next time we take a picture like the one above will be when the new windows are being installed in our new church ... it may be a few months away, but it WILL happen ...
dayenu,
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