Letter 3005: The good news I promised you has arrived, and I did not want to wait another day before sharing it.

Sedatus to the most holy Brother Ruricius. The good news I promised you has arrived, and I did not want to wait another day before sharing it. The son in the faith about whom we were both so concerned — I will not name him in writing, you know who I mean — has resolved his situation in exactly the way we had hoped. The resolution was not dramatic; it did not involve the kind of crisis and conversion that makes a good story. It was quiet, gradual, and as far as I can tell, genuine. He came to me yesterday and said something that I found both simple and sufficient. What he said, I will leave for when we meet, since some things are better spoken than written. But I want you to know now that your prayers have been answered, and that the pastoral concern you showed for this person — the letters, the direct conversations, the willingness to say hard things with enough love that they could be received — has borne fruit. I thank God, and I thank you. Your brother, Sedatus

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