Although the earth around us is covered in snow and animals remain in hibernation, for the human species the first of the year is often a time of new energy and excitement about the beginning of a new chapter.

In this time of Advent, we experience both the eagerness to put aside the worries and concerns of the past as well as look forward, with hope, to the coming anew of the Messiah.

If summertime is supposed to be a time of no work and all play, our churches didn't get the memo. However, it could be understood that good work is all play for those of us in the Episcopal Church in Wyoming. 

We are in a new season as an organization, and I bring the excitement of a fresh new day and the eagerness to produce new fruit.