We have been in Austin for exactly 26 days. It has been a roller-coaster of a ride to get to this place. The Vicar in training begins orientation tomorrow. I have started working. Life is on a somewhat predictable and usually trajectory again. In the same moment our life is on the tipping point. Eldest child starts school in just over a week. Other kids to have a nanny for the first time in the same amount of days. It is ALOT to keep it simple.
Yesterday while meeting with a representative of the seminary I was honest that seminary living and the journey to being Mrs. Vicarage was not an easy one, still isn't. She commented that this was a BIG ASK. That's the most honest and real phrase to encompass the journey that is discernment. To ask one''s family to go on this journey has to be incredibly difficult. To say yes, it's another world of faith. I've said yes but it comes with much trepidation. With many tears and fears. It also comes with a healthy dose of skepticism, which honestly it should.
As we turn on this point and continue down the Camino, we continue to lean into the discomfort of change. Luckily I know I have support, from new and old sisteren. The Vicarage is settled, now on to the business of life.
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