Our Thursday evening group has been working through the Revelation to John. There were several reasons for this choice—some came from the group, and some from me. This is now the third time I have led a study on this book, and I believe I have learned more this time around than in the other two combined. Something in the chemistry of the group and the quality of the questions caused me to go deeper into the text than I had ever done before. So I'm grateful to this group for pushing me, and I believe they are mostly grateful for the experience of unpacking what can be the most opaque text of the Bible.

We're taking a rest now. Easter is coming, and people are going away. When we gather again, we will be taking some time to look at the major questions coming before our General Synod in June.

And today is another day around this Cathedral church. Haiving finished one big task, I realize that some things remain unfinished, and a number of jobs must be started. My inbox is overflowing, my to-do list has unaccountably grown, and a Sunday homily remains to be considered.

When I was preparing to go to seminary, my parish priest told me, "Two things you need to know about this work: no one says thank-you, and the the job's never done." He was only partly right about the first, but dead on about the second. There's always something else that needs doing...

But I also need to take some time for me and my own spiritual health. So I recall the closing words of today's reading, and resolve to take it to heart:

Remember to extol his work,
   of which mortals have sung.  (Job 36:24 NRSV)