General Convention is soon!!
I'm less than a week away from General Convention and all I can think of is how thankful I am. I distinctly remember the summer before seminary, tracking GC 2009 in Troy, AL with Joseph and Father Jeff. Now, in a strange turn of events, I'm GOING to GC and am going as an ORDAINED person. Even more so than that, my priest at the church that I WORK AT (because I have a JOB) has asked me to get all my ordinations plans set, WHICH I HAVE, for a literal ordination to the PRIESTHOOD on August 3. It is a strangely beautiful world that I live in and I can't stop thanking God for it.
I feel like every day something happens that reminds me that I have picked the right vocation, AKA that obedience to God is just as good as people say it is. People literally let me into the reality of their lives and it is treacherous and breathtaking.
One of my favorite priests-- a phenomenal man with a wonderful heart-- once said that he has been a priest for a very long time, and that he has never stopped loving it... Because he was paid to give a damn about other people, and he should have been doing that anyway.
So that's it. I give a damn about people. And God consistently reminds me that that doesn't make me special, it just makes me obedient... And I should have been that anyway.