The other day, I had the opportunity to spend six hours in Truro with eighty pastors from around the Maritimes.

There were Wesleyans, Baptists, Pentecostals and Catholic clergy who had gathered with one purpose: to pray. To pray for our churches, to pray for our people, to pray for our politicians and to pray for our country.

For six hours, we put aside our differences and focused on what brought us together, and we prayed. We didn’t argue theology, we simply started the day with the Apostles’ creed, and then we prayed. The leader for the day called it heart first unity and spoke about charity in orthodoxy.

Our differences were sometimes evident in our style of prayer, but that didn’t seem to matter to those who had gathered, and I would suspect that it mattered even less to God.

The highlight of the time, for me, was when the group spent two hours focused on One Conference, the interdenominational youth rally happening in Moncton this weekend.

It was so powerful to hear men and women praying and shedding tears over the 3,600 teens who will gather to worship Jesus.

It was a reminder that we are all family, and like all families, we won’t always agree, but we are still family.

Have a great week and remember: To see what is really possible, attempt the impossible.