History Has Been Made!

Yesterday, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected the first woman to be the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, also making her the first woman Primate in the worldwide Anglican Communion, and I can’t stop smiling!

This is HUGE people! I want to laugh and cry at the same time. It’s crazy. I do not know this woman. I do not want to become a bishop. But there is in this, something that changes everything. A group that is predominantly men, voted to make this happen. The majority of people wanted this. She cares about what I care about—inclusion of all people; implementing the UN’s Millennium Development Goals for embracing and celebrating diversity, and eradicating poverty and hunger; creating an environmentally sustainable world.

And if you’re a believing kind of person, there’s the aspect of God’s participation in the process that made her Presiding Bishop. God wanted this.

God and people wanted this and that means something. Something that makes me have hope. Hope for a clearer vision of what’s truly important. Hope for more love and grace among God’s people. Hope that all the ways we have obscured the face of God will be washed clean so that God’s radiance shines. Shines to us and through us and transforms us.

Goethe wrote: Nothing is worth more than this day. Well, it is indeed a new day, and I for one am rejoicing!