I officially put together a Discernment Committee, which puts me on the very early first step of the Process of Ordination in the Episcopal Church.
I honestly have no idea how it will turn out, and I don't have any expectation or really even a hope either. I am really going to make this committee live up to their charge as helpers in my discernment process, 'cause I got no earthly idea if I wanna be a priest!
Still, it is an exciting move. We'll start shortly after Easter. With fear and trembling!!
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. —Rainer Maria Rilke
About Me
- Stasi
- I am currently staying at home and taking care of my children (born 6/08 and 7/10). In my little free time, I teach and write liturgy. My work is currently available through the clayfire project (sparkhouse publishing, a division of Augsburg). I teach for Fuller Seminary online. I am also very interested in the spirituality of food and how faith impacts the choices people make around eating. I am writing articles and perhaps one day a book on this topic.
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4 comments:
If you haven't read it, Nora Gallagher's 2nd memoir, "Practicing Resurrection," deals in part with her experience of going through the discernment process in the LA diocese of the ECUSA. It's a lovely book- though I do like the first one, "Things Seen and Unseen," just a smidgen more.
First off, congratulations!
Secondly -- great blog! As another L.A.-area female seminarian with a different (and amply confused) denominational affiliation but similar political/theological inclinations, it's a great read :)
The personal blog-link, by the way, is from a month-long Asia jaunt last fall and no longer updated. Perhaps in time I'll have a more current, more interesting online venue.
- MED
Good luck with your discernment process. Mine was very useful, even though I wound up choosing not to pursue ordination and an MDiv at the time. I hope yours is productive no matter which way you go.
Good luck and many blessings as you enter discernment. My own process was a difficult but extremely rewarding one that ultimately set me on the road towards (Episcopal) ordination. May you be blessed with a strong committee with wise hearts and open ears.
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