Thoughts today

Shirley has a new job this week. We both had Wednesdays off, but now she works Wednesdays. So we had lunch together earlier. I'm enjoying the day, and reflecting on God's grace 13 days out from ordination. Now that it's coming, it doesn't quite feel like I thought it would. Yes, I'm happy, and excited to a point; yet also with it is the sense of the seriousness of it. I will be set apart as a priest, or presbyter. It is a sobering thought. Fr. Joe shared with me that he had that same sobering sense before his ordination, and yet the joy was there, also. There has also been attacks from the enemy and his crew, just as there were before I took monastic vows. But He is, and we who are in Him are--victorious.

There is a trememdous joy that comes with obedience. And a peace.


under the mercy,
br. francis