Whining, glassy-eyed and bewildered




Here are photographs of the transformation at St. Mark's in Hazard!

I feel as though the days to Ordination are in reverse proportion to the energy, time and talent I have to prepare for the service. One of my comrades, trying to be supportive, said, "Gosh, how are you doing this without a secretary?"

You will be glad to know I did not hit him.

I have not even had time to ask all of the people I want to ask to do things; there is likely to be sparse music, and I am such a techno-idiot that the bulletin seems insurmountable at this moment. I cannot type or select music while driving. When I am home, despite living with incomparable men, there is so much home stuff that demands attention and we are literally wallowing in debris.

Anybody got an extra fairy godmother or patron saint of the incompetent to share?

Or extra kleenex? Maybe I will just sob in the shower and save another task.

Here endeth the whining. Thanks for listening!

Comments

Merely Human said…
You will get through it, and there will be great joy on that day. And look, you got pictures posted! You're right, the white looks good.
December 4, 2007 at 6:07 PM
Heidi Haverkamp said…
When is the big day? Many blessings on it! Mine is just two weeks away, and I both can't believe it and partially feel ordained already, since I'm in the thick of this work. You?
December 4, 2007 at 7:07 PM
Rev. Jane Austen said…
Heidi, Mine is December 16th at 5p--a few hours after yours! Yes, I do feel partially that way already but so much MP and preaching has made me feel sacramentally farther out. Blessings on yours as well! ;-)
December 6, 2007 at 10:29 AM
Raisin said…
And remember Julian of Norwich: All will be well and all will be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
December 6, 2007 at 2:49 PM
Heidi Haverkamp said…
I can sympathize with how overwhelming this all can be, too. My goodness, a church is a complex organism, that we fill more with anxiety than the peace of Christ.
December 7, 2007 at 6:16 AM
Heidi Haverkamp said…
or that we CAN often fill more with anxiety, I mean!
December 7, 2007 at 6:17 AM
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