These past nine months have shown each of us more clearly what we need and what we hunger for, what we have plenty of and what we have too little of. Indeed the key to doing difficult things well is to know that it is Christ who strengthens us: not to do anything and everything, but to discover that for which we are most gifted, and is most necessary for others, and to do it well.

Maybe it’s too much to ask of us to be of one mind on these things. But it is God’s heartbeat that underlies our own, God’s Spirit that brings us together (sometimes literally and these days, often virtually), and Christ’s obedience that inspires our own.