Awake

Lake Logan Episcopal Center

It's almost one in the morning and I'm awake. Awake and alive and, apparently, anxious. I can't stop eating (rest easy, i switched my snacking some hours ago to celery sticks), cleaning, and prepping for the weekend. I'm currently printing directions, important phone numbers, the agenda, and all that personality stuff i had to do for the overnight coming up this Friday. I have to be at Lake Logan by 10am (at least three hours away) and we will be done by 10am Saturday morning. Priests work on Sundays, so Fri/Sat is there weekend :)

As I was prepping, cleaning, eating celery, and printing - I received this parish email from our priest, Rick, at St. Mary's:

Hey friends.

It's been a little wierd with Greta and Beth Lawler gone. I've been running around doing dog and family stuff in addition to work and my annual physical. This Friday and Saturday I'll be with the Commission on Ministry serving as their chaplain as they discern vocation with Anne Clark and a couple of other candidates. This is Anne's first overnight. She'll be interviewed, poked and proded a bit, and prayed with. Then the COM will decide whether she can continue the process. Bill Devereux serves on the Commision as well as Jeanne Finan. So keep Anne in your prayers.

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Keep all of our travelers in your prayers.


Lot's up. As always.

God be praised!
Rick

It's amazing how good it feels to know that there are people out there praying for you and your journey, specifically and generally.

A lot is going to happen in those 24 hours a Lake Logan. I'm anxious about going to a new facility in a new area with new people, but I'm also energized and very much looking forward to this opportunity for spiritual growth and discernment.

Please keep me in your prayers, as well. Love love love




MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

- Thomas Merton, "Thoughts in Solitude"