What a day, what a day. I tell ya, life is somethin. This past weekend I had the honor of being one of the people that got to go to dinner with Richard Schori. For you non-Episcopalians or Episcopalians that live in a dark, bat ridden cave, Richard Schori is the husband of the presiding Bishop. So, pretty big deal from my perspective. He sort of felt celebrity-ish to me and I was a bit nervous before drinking my first glass of red wine.
Mr. Schori was here because the spouses of the seminary had a little retreat where we got to hear from spouses of the past that are now in churches with their man or woman Priest. It was good and all but there’s always this negative undertone. Everyone starts out all faith and love and ends all sacrifice and difficult. I realize that Wil being a Priest will have its disadvantages and that it is more then just a job as are many careers that touch lives so deeply. I just don’t buy the whole “life will be really hard” stuff. I get that I can’t cuss (a lot) and I can’t wear a tube top and daisy dukes to the grocery store but I probably wasn’t going to do that anyway. I can’t get wasted at the pot lucks or talk about the end of the world and conspiracy theories and that, I will actually have to be careful about.
In this fantasy bubble that is Sewanee, these things are not real to me yet. We all are flawed and anything we have issues with here seem to surface so easily. I don’t want to hide who I really am at any point. I likes to keep it real!
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