Our holiday came to a noisy end last night with a barrage of fireworks by the neighborhood kids, then thunderstorms. It was midnight before Jay-Jay came out from under the bed. The rain was much needed, and we're getting more today. Our walking path was littered this morning with flower petals from the crepe myrtles and fireworks debris, alternating spots of pleasantness and unpleasantness, plenty of new smells for the dogs to investigate.

I thought about going to the cathedral today for Bishop Gray's discussion of GC06, but decided I'd really rather stay at home. Guy told me on Sunday that he is going, so I'll get him to tell me about it. The StandFirm guy will post his take on it, I'm sure. If he doesn't like the way it goes, I will be pleased. He's a good barometer for atmospheric conditions. Bishop Gray has impressed me as being as solid as they come. Not liberal enough to approve ++Robinson's consecration, but progressive enough to support the election of ++Schori.

Akinola seems to be campaigning for the position of pope for the churches that are following his lead. He's saying now that the Archbishop of Canterbury has failed to exercise enough control over the delinquent ECUSA, and that he doesn't want to participate in Lambeth 2008. He has gone so far as calling us "a cancerous lump that should be excised." The much despised B033 resolution may turn out to be the smartest political move in the long run. The liberals who fell on their swords for the sake of unity appear to be much more sincere in their desire to be true to the gospel than those on the sanctimonious ultra-conservative side. I wonder if any of the American bishops are having second thoughts about the bridges they're burning. Seems to me they're aligned with a megalomaniac.

Is this a separating of the chaff from the wheat, the goats from the sheep? Or maybe it's the division between those who are building on gold, silver and precious stone from those who are building on wood, hay and stubble.

1 Corh 3 says: 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

In other words, time will tell.