- Running a doggy day care for Olivia and Beatrice
- Writing a column for Presbyterians Today
- Attempting a major revision of the operating manual for one of the largest PCUSA churches in the denomination ~sound of teeth grinding~
- Living near my daughter and son-in-law
- Learning how to cook from my Babs
- Being involved in sewer controversies in Calhoun County, TX
- Seeing my niece become an opera singer
- Having my very own study (love it!!!!)
Monday, September 14, 2009
Things I Didn't Anticipate
This morning I'm contemplating the things I didn't see myself doing twenty years ago. Things like...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
10 comments:
I believe the only one I find surprising knowing you now is the sewer controversy. Hmmm.
I'd pity the Calhoun County fools, but I know they have it comin'.
I did not anticipate in my wildest dreams that I would be a mom. Also didn't anticipate that I'd be divorcing a madman. But you gotta take the sweet with the bitter.
Songbird--
The sewer controversy is about the creation of a municipal utility district for the subdivision where we have a house on the bay in that county. It's become very Peyton Place in some ways but mostly too arcane to blog about. Mostly, I never dreamed I'd actually have a house on the bay!
Calvin would have loved the sewer controversy. He inspected the sewers in Geneva as part of his reforms...
Just about everything about my life today! Being a pastor, being married to a wonderful husband(though I hoped), living in a small town in Wyoming, and loving it. God is so good!
Living in Texas; having six grandchildren; being retired from parish ministry; being so happy in a marriage I could not have even imagined!
Living in Plodding PA*, being a Presbyterian Elder, being where I am in my faith walk, meeting a woman who has brought me back to the church and has made me one of the luckiest guys in the world.
*pseudonym
In 1989 I did not anticipate living in New York City, nor serving as a half-time Designated Pastor. I think twenty years ago there was no such thing as a Designated Pastor, and I would have expected to be serving full time. Nor did I anticipate a war in Afghanistan and Iraq, let alone a major recession that was almost a depression.
Doing the child thing again--raising a 12 year old and a 10-year old reveals how much the world has changed since my older boys were that age.
On the same note: getting to learn the "girl thing." I had boys down solid, and it still seems to work with Bionicle Boy, but as those of us with daughters know, the girl thing is entirely different. ("There oughta be a bounty.....," he muttered.)
Being a RE (and a Stated Clerk, to boot).
Getting the "opportunity" to relive and deal with Vietnam--the war that keeps on giving.
Living in rural Missouri or anywhere outside of Texas, being long term unemployed, raising two kids (my real job) and being a Christian. Actually being a Presbyterian is the real shocker. I was brought up in the Episcopal Church and even as an agnostic contemplated the prospect of being anything other than an Episcopalian with horror.
Post a Comment