Archbishop Oscar Romera quote

This is what we are about:

We plant seeds
that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted,
knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations
that will need further development.
We provide yeast
that produces effects beyond
our capabilities.
We cannot do everything
there is a sense of liberation
in realizing that.
This enables us to do something
to do it very well.
It may be incomplete,
but it is a beginning,
a step along the way,
an opportunity for God’s grace
to enter
and do the rest.
We may never see the end results,
but that is the difference between
the master builder
and the worker.
We are the workers,
not master builders,
ministers,
not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future
not our own.