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The Gut-Ball of Frustration
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3 min read
Phone interviews are different when you are at home most of the day. In the Episcopal Church, our process of discerning a call to ministry in a congregation has several steps. You put all of your info online, answering a bunch of questions. Then contact is made, either presbyter to congregation, presbyter to diocese, congregation…
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My Father’s Day Story
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2 min read
Life changes when you use an EPI-pen on your child. We are visiting her cousins, enjoying our Father’s Day. We are having a day of playing and resting and sharing an incredible meal with family. And then she eats cake. We were in the next room, the formal dining room. Rose and I could see…
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Play: your heart has to be into it
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4 min read
Sometimes when I wake up in the morning, I just want to be left alone; but my daughter and I have this routine that involves her doing a lot of imaginative play. This, of course, extends into the afternoon. Every day. I worry about the times (like today) when my heart isn’t in it. When…
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Parking Lot Interview
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2 min read
This was a first. I was standing in a Holiday Inn parking lot, talking to a search committee, with the signal dropping at random times on my end while my daughter was upstairs, reading books with my parents as I try like mad to sound both passionate about ministry and completely rational. And I just…
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Sunday’s fortune
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1 min read
This was my fortune from last night “you will have many friends when you need them.” I guess the only questions are these: 1) how are we going to know when that is? And 2) is everybody ready?
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Travels with Charlie
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1 min read
I’m currently on my first father/daughter trip. We flew back to Michigan to visit my sister before she moves to Germany and then stay with my parents for a few days. The weather in Michigan has been perfect–not at all the typical June: sunny, upper 70’s. I’m not sure what is more taxing: the travel…
Make a New Normal
