Last Sunday, Tim Johnson reminded all of us here at St. Thomas' that we are fortunate enough to be drinking from a well we did not dig.  And this Sunday, we are honoring those saints who came before us, such as the ones at St. Thomas' who helped dig and maintain this proverbial well, so that we could be here, drinking from it today, every Sunday, and every other time we gather as a community in the name of the God, who is calling us into a deeper relationship with himself and one another.

Now, it is our turn to be faithful stewards of this gift to us, and the choice is a simple one.  I'm reminded of the "Parable of the Talents," where the slave who was given five talents by the master traded with them and made five more talents, and, in the same way, the one who had received two talents made two more talents.  However, the one who had been entrusted with one talent went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.  Now, as you all know, when the master returned to settle accounts with his slaves, he was pleased with the first two but furious with the third, who had not been a faithful steward of that which had been entrusted to him.