The long awaited... well LONG post.

Actually, this post is so incredibly long. I'm going to chop it up a bit. Here's the week in review.

Sunday- "Of Monks and Men"

So, like I said, it’s been a whirlwind of a week. Exactly one week ago (and I can’t believe it was all the way back then) I followed Amy, the associate pastor, to L. one of the nursing homes/residential homes for the elderly. We were giving a small communion service. Well, Amy was, I was just there for the food. :) P.S. Not all nursing homes serve bad food. Although I couldn’t deal with fried chicken and mashed potatoes all the time, they had these blueberries that were out of this world. Oh and I tried okra. It was kind of like a pickle and very tasty. Who would’ve thunk it?

Anyway, Amy and I had a fun conversation. I think that she’s the most like me out of all the pastoral care team. She’s also the youngest :). She said that it’s kind of funny being a young female pastor and being so conservative. I guess most young females are liberal. :) I told her that I can from an EPC church… evangelical Presbyterian and she said, “yeah I think that’s where I’m going to end up”. Then we got into a great discussion about infant baptism because I brought up the reasons I’m not a member at our church at home. She’s so cute. “With Obadiah, I thought we were dodging the bomb, since when we came to the church he was a year old, and they probably thought he was already baptized. But having a child is different. (She gave birth to Mercy six weeks ago). People sent me baptismal dresses and keep asking me when we’re going to get her baptized. I don’t really know, but what my one friend said keeps haunting me. He said that he felt like his baptism was robbed from him.” Not to open a can of worms or anything... baptism is another one of those things that I don't think is necessary for everyone to absolutely agree on to still be part of one body, but that's just my opionion. I believe something and I won't change... and you probably believe something else and won't change... but I bet we'll both end up on the right side of Jersalem. :)

Another thing she said made me smile, “We (my husband and I) wanted to be nun and monk respectively”

Sometimes I think I’d like to find a guy that considered being a monk.