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Grace and Gratitude
Two monarchs. More Prime Ministers than seemed necessary. A great many birthdays. The loss of parents and grandparents. The birth of friendships we could not have imagined. First days of school, last days of term, prayers in joy and in grief, and more ordinary mercies than we could begin to count.
When we moved to Oxford, our family motto was simple: "We thank God for the gift of Oxford: in order to learn to love Jesus more and each other better."
That prayer has followed us through these years, in ways we could not have planned.
Oxford has been a gift to us. Pusey House has been a gift to us. Its chapel, its rhythm, its people, and its peculiar holiness have shaped our family in deep and lasting ways.
There is no clean way to summarize a season like this. We have received far more than we desired or deserved, more than we can repay.
As we prepare to leave Oxford for Dallas, grieving the end of this chapter, and full of grateful for the call before us. In July, I will begin serving at Church of the Incarnation in Dallas as Assistant Rector for Liturgy and worship.
My final sermon at Pusey last week was, fittingly, about grace, home, and the strange mercy of being sent onward. You can listen to it below.
To our friends, mentors, colleagues, and fellow pilgrims in Oxford: thank you. Thank you for loving us, praying with us, bearing with us, and helping us learn to love Jesus more and each other better.
We leave Oxford with gratitude and full hearts.
And we go to Dallas trusting the same God who brought us here, kept us here, and now sends us on.
— Parker
When we moved to Oxford, our family motto was simple: "We thank God for the gift of Oxford: in order to learn to love Jesus more and each other better."
That prayer has followed us through these years, in ways we could not have planned.
Oxford has been a gift to us. Pusey House has been a gift to us. Its chapel, its rhythm, its people, and its peculiar holiness have shaped our family in deep and lasting ways.
There is no clean way to summarize a season like this. We have received far more than we desired or deserved, more than we can repay.
As we prepare to leave Oxford for Dallas, grieving the end of this chapter, and full of grateful for the call before us. In July, I will begin serving at Church of the Incarnation in Dallas as Assistant Rector for Liturgy and worship.
My final sermon at Pusey last week was, fittingly, about grace, home, and the strange mercy of being sent onward. You can listen to it below.
To our friends, mentors, colleagues, and fellow pilgrims in Oxford: thank you. Thank you for loving us, praying with us, bearing with us, and helping us learn to love Jesus more and each other better.
We leave Oxford with gratitude and full hearts.
And we go to Dallas trusting the same God who brought us here, kept us here, and now sends us on.
— Parker
A whirlwind
Ordination, first mass, funerals, and a new term at Pusey
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