Rector's Reflection by Rev. Jeffrey Queen 

It's hard to miss the carving on the central panel of the high altar at St. Andrew's.  It is a sunburst with a triangle embedded in the center.  I had not given much thought to this carving until the days leading up to this most recent Christmas Day. I discovered as I was preparing a meditation for one of our pre-Christmas O Antiphon services that we hold jointly with a local Roman Catholic parish, that the sunburst was the symbol for the first Antiphon, O Wisdom from on High. I had seen this carving nearly every day for two years, but it was only through spending time praying and preparing that I discovered what it really meant. For me, this is a good reminder of how God is shining into my life and the lives of everyone at St. Andrew's. We spend a healthy amount of time praying together, both with other Christians and other Episcopalians. We observe all of the major feast days of the church with the three other Northern Kentucky Episcopal congregations. As a priest, I'm discovering again how powerful praying with others can be both in my own life and in the corporate life of the community. Just as the sunburst is at the center of the physical space of the church, prayer-and the wisdom and strength that comes with it-is at the center of our spiritual life at St. Andrew's.