He so loves the job that he is running unopposed for his own full term. Never have so many owed so much to just one. I am increasingly led to believe that the sacred text is constantly calling forth a living midrash, which is the committed commentary of transformed lives. Bold headlines, and hungry souls are reading these lives. And that life was a headline that read You, too, are loved to death by God in Christ.
People read our lives before they read our Bible.
Finally, we remember before God two such lives, a layman, William Baldwin, and a bishop, Gresh Marmion. Could we have a moment of silence, then I will lead us in a short prayer.