A perfect commentary

I started this Blog as a way of recording what this journey looks like, for anyone coming after me, or in a similar situation, and for my friends to keep tabs on my adventure. I also have used it as an outlet for joy, frustration, and all the other emotional ups and downs of this wild ride.

I started out excited and wordy and full of commentary, and have ended up sick to death of writing and listening to myself think.

And my last posting, which stood un-touched for weeks was "What doesn't kill you...."

heh heh.

It's all a perfect commentary. I'm in the final stages of labour now. This baby is coming! I just got my second to last "yes" to my ordination on April 2nd, and have been asked to begin planning the service.

What energy and attention I have left is going into jumping through the final hoops required of me. I'm sleeping between contractions now, I'm so tired of the process, so to speak. I'm almost too tired to be excited.

So here I am in Maine, half-way through my two-week internship with Rev. Ken Turley in Fryeburg. The locals are wonderful with buckets of personality, but I've caught the plague that is going around. There's a nasty cough/sinus/sore-throat bug going around, so ubiquitous that church yesterday sounded like a consumption ward. Ken just stoppped talking in the middle of his sermon for a while because nobody could hear what he was saying over all the hacking and nose-blowing. It's just funny. This is real life---real church. The choir director was so sick he couldn't sing, so I sang tenor. But he played a mean hammer-dulcimer for one of the songs and for the prelude (covet, covet....). For a tiny congregation, their choir ROCKS.

So, I'm shouting out from my final sprint to say THANK YOU to everyone who has followed this process with me and supported me. The finish line is in sight.

My ordination, if I get my final "yes" is scheduled for June 26th in the evening, on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle. Anyone who can possibly travel that far and wants to come is welcome.

WAHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!