Bishop Mark Hanson speaks to "It Gets Better."  Click below to see his message.

It Gets Better.

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There's so much at stake when you take a group of youth anywhere.  Especially when you travel across borders to do so.  This July, we headed to Toronto for our service trip.  It was a bit of a rocky road to get there, with a change in destination. 

Phew, the forty days have passed.  We gathered together for a Seder Supper, we sat in silence and darkness as we recognized Jesus' death, we gathered for His rising.  We have come out of

I spent the week preceding Lent this year in Maui.  The trip was incredible and we saw some really powerful aspects of God’s creation throughout the week. 

If we compare Lent to a wilderness experience, we can conjure many images.  Wilderness can be a welcome experience, as when we go camping, backpacking or hiking. 

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil.  Luke 4:1

When I read this passage,  I wonder why the Holy Spirit would lead Jesus into the wilderness. 

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished.  Luke 4:1-2

Many (if not all) of us have wilderness experiences in our lives.  We may lose a job. 

“Do not call to mind the former things, or ponder things of the past. Behold I will do something new, now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.”- Isaiah 43:18-19