Next we have the image of a mobile, those funny looking shapes created by Calder, that are interrelated and interdependent as they move in balance. We are different people yet are one whole. Then there is a grove of Aspen trees . This grove does not point to where I am going but to where I have been. It tells of that deep understanding shared by all of us that we, like a grove of Aspen trees, are not separate but one.
Aspens are the largest organic body on the planet.
Many trees, one organism. We saw the Church and its congregations as one body, one organism and our work and ministry was nurturing its health. Finally there are the tables and chairs of the conference room at the diocesan office in Wilmington. This is where Morning Prayer has been said daily and where over the years the staff gathered in the Office and then spent a few moments of sharing our love and concerns for the people and congregations of the diocese as well as minister to one another in our personal lives . I now believe that teams of all kinds are the future for pastoral leadership.