In the beginning…
I’m sure there are plenty of blogs with a first post titled something like “In the beginning…” I don’t expect that mine will necessarily stand out in the sea of blogs available to us all. It’s just that I want to write. I want to write about my experiences in parish ministry and COVID and retiring and how I got to this place. I have known I want to write about this for quite some time. In July I spoke with my friend Sandhya Jha about the possibility of writing a book from the perspective of being a pastor during the COVID lockdown and its aftermath. She was quite encouraging. Then came the months of preparing to retire, getting the congregation as ready as possible for my leaving, finding a place to live, moving out of the Parsonage and into the apartment, and so much more. So very busy! So very little writing getting done outside of sermons and such. I know that if I want to write seriously I needed to write daily, so I got an app that su...