every time I start this I get distracted; by what, many things.
Gotta get this outta my head first then current events.
I'm reading this book, Being A Priest today, great book; one problem, can't give you a gist of what I've gleamed so far. It's more feelings than knowledge, I think anyway. Kinda feels like its stashed away to be pulled out (as phrases from Psalms are doing) to be used when I don't have words or - more often than not - I'm joking with the other interns :). Anyway, this book is making me excited, giving me ideas, asking questions, wanting, yearning, needing to go deeper and be apart of this!
I'm in ch6 now, just started it but stopped because I'd read two sections on The Word, preaching and such. That section didn't make me feel inadequate, thank God. Being the only non-religious studies person, I feel a bit lost sometimes, but they're good at giving me enough info to get the main point at least. So anyway, this book hasn't gotten practical - which is what I thought it would do, rather it's connecting concepts together, how we all by virtue of our baptism are already ministers, some are simply called to a specific ministry of presiding, looking over, after, being responsible for others. Then it's been talking about things like regular reading of scripture so that one is nourished and also partaking in the gift of prayer so that one can be in touch with the Holy Spirit and be more able to speak the word of God to, for, and on behalf of his people. That makes me think about something, when I would say the prayers of the people, I was struck very profoundly by the fact that I was speaking aloud the collective concerns of God's people and how important I understood that to be and how right it felt for me to be doing so.
So yeah, I love this book, it's exciting something within me and I like it!
You know I've decided, this should stand alone. Another post later on with current events
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