'what we see ... depends ... on what we look for'

There is this saying - what we see and hear depends mainly on what we look for. We were tensioned much thinking about the result of the assemly. And today, we're reached with some news about the result of their first day meeting. The main, perhaps, the only decision made was empowering the leadership of some departments with members of the HS. Let us take this as a positive decision for it, at least from the experiences we see in other sister churches, will help the departments (and in a way the church) perform better. But if we read in between the lines, this decision was agitated to indirectly achieve the goal of keeping the upper hand soon and later. The obvious hypothesis that should come into our mind is - this is done either to destroy the Executive Committee as a body of management or disperse the members of the HS who are and to be entitled in the body; to let their power be confined in the departments they are assigned for. Remeber it was the first team of this body who moved the house and got the ninjas act as crazy and foolish. This fear will be off if they are going to decide to keep the management body they formed. The other gossip is to indirectly corner the HS to accept the quiry of ordaining more bishops who are believed to be loyal memebrs who can balance the pivot. If we remember, the ajenda was unanimously rejected by the HS when it was tabled with the argument that there are enough fathers who can serve the church. Now if these fathers are given departments, it would be easy to convince the HS members that ordaining new bishops is vital.
We pray to see the following accomplishments at the end of this meeting : the Holy Synod gets back its full authority to lead the church; the ninjas who emaciated the church are erradicated from the house; the members of the HS are unified to maintain the honor and grace of the church. Until we see these, we don't have to enjoy or sit back and say, 'temesgen'. Let us rather pray and do what we can do.