Thursday, September 15, 2011

And we are offffff!!!!!!!

Well,
the program year has started with an incredible...whoosshhh.

In other words, really busy.  

I am still where I was planted five plus years ago, and getting used to having a new interim senior colleague.    This is going fine.  Different, getting used to it, fine.  As an interim situation, I suspect that I am very lucky.  

It's just not the place I envisioned being in when we moved here 6 years ago.

I  adore my congregation.  I love my work.   Don't get me wrong.    I also am very, very, very weary of the being the second pastor.   Kind of sort of ready to be in my own gig.  Have been for some time.

However, I know this is not the plan of the universe, for now, and that I am where I am supposed to be for now.

 There are times I rejoice--I love watching our children grow up--I mean, really, J is in middle school this fall???  And oh, how grown up N is!!  I am grateful that I know R's story, so that in this current transition, I can be fully, pastorally there (as best I can).....It's all really a gift, you know?

There are times I am embarrassed--that I am STILL an associate pastor (just naming it--I know better--but it is a part of how I feel)  and there are times I am bewildered.    I know the Gentle Divine gets it.  

And tonight,
As the temperature changes, and a cool breeze is wafting in the open window, I am every so humbled and welcoming of that great Gentleness.

Amen.

3 comments:

  1. I think it's perfectly reasonable to name it, dear friend. Your gifts are plentiful, and I'm eager to see how God will use them in the future.

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  2. God is preparing a place for you, and when that place is ready for you, you will each fond one another...and, it will be delightful. I speak from the heart, and from that place of despair that has been transformed. Name it, hope for it, give God your yearning....God will respond, in Gods time....sigh.

    Love you!

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  3. I hope you'll follow whatever is calling. It is okay to be in a holding pattern--sounds like you are keeping your eyes open.

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