Comments on: Bishop’s Charge to Synod http://www.anglicanessentials.ca/wordpress/index.php/2009/11/16/bishops-charge-to-synod-2/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:46:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kate http://www.anglicanessentials.ca/wordpress/index.php/2009/11/16/bishops-charge-to-synod-2/comment-page-1/#comment-195421 Kate Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:56:52 +0000 http://www.anglicanessentials.ca/wordpress/index.php/2009/11/16/bishops-charge-to-synod-2/#comment-195421 Hi Lorna, I'm pretty sure the Bishop doesn't read the blog, I posted what he said at synod. You might want to write him a letter, as well. Hi Lorna,

I’m pretty sure the Bishop doesn’t read the blog, I posted what he said at synod. You might want to write him a letter, as well.

]]> By: Lorna Allard http://www.anglicanessentials.ca/wordpress/index.php/2009/11/16/bishops-charge-to-synod-2/comment-page-1/#comment-195412 Lorna Allard Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:28:21 +0000 http://www.anglicanessentials.ca/wordpress/index.php/2009/11/16/bishops-charge-to-synod-2/#comment-195412 Dear Right Rev, Donald Harvey, This message moved me greatly and encouraged me as well. I have one deep concern that haunts me and will not let me go. I'm afraid in all of our enthusiam and passion for this new day in the ANiC church, that we will not allow room for the Holy Spirit to move and have His Way with us. I saw in a vision many years ago the dove leave the Anglican Church in which I was sitting. The dove, which I understood to be God's Holy Spirit was flying back and forth looking for a softened heart in which to enter and abide. None could be found and this poor dove flew up and down, back and forth sometimes hovering above a person, pleading it seemed to me, and then exhausted, it flew out of the church. This sight has never left me. A year later I was at a retreat with our church planning for our next year. We were sitting in the chapel of this retreat center in quiet contemplation when I heard a very loud voice say, "Do not quench the voice of the Holy Spirit! Do not quench the voice of the Holy Spirit!" That shook me greatly and I went through that entire weekend with those words ringing in my ears and echoing in my heart. They still do to this day and it seems it is getting louder and more intensive. I do pray for this new church that has been birthed in North America and am so thankful for the faithful people who have given of their time and energy and the price is great (!) toward a new begininng. I pray that we will finally get it right and let the Holy Spirit of God have His way with us to the glory of our Lord God Almighty. This I pray in the name of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May God continue to bless and keep you and your loved ones in His care. Your sister in Jesus Christ, Lorna Allard Dear Right Rev, Donald Harvey,
This message moved me greatly and encouraged me as well. I have one deep concern that haunts me and will not let me go. I’m afraid in all of our enthusiam and passion for this new day in the ANiC church, that we will not allow room for the Holy Spirit to move and have His Way with us. I saw in a vision many years ago the dove leave the Anglican Church in which I was sitting. The dove, which I understood to be God’s Holy Spirit was flying back and forth looking for a softened heart in which to enter and abide. None could be found and this poor dove flew up and down, back and forth sometimes hovering above a person, pleading it seemed to me, and then exhausted, it flew out of the church. This sight has never left me. A year later I was at a retreat with our church planning for our next year. We were sitting in the chapel of this retreat center in quiet contemplation when I heard a very loud voice say, “Do not quench the voice of the Holy Spirit! Do not quench the voice of the Holy Spirit!” That shook me greatly and I went through that entire weekend with those words ringing in my ears and echoing in my heart. They still do to this day and it seems it is getting louder and more intensive. I do pray for this new church that has been birthed in North America and am so thankful for the faithful people who have given of their time and energy and the price is great (!) toward a new begininng. I pray that we will finally get it right and let the Holy Spirit of God have His way with us to the glory of our Lord God Almighty. This I pray in the name of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
May God continue to bless and keep you and your loved ones in His care.
Your sister in Jesus Christ,
Lorna Allard

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