Tuesday 3 November 2015
It's Time!
I'm staring at the blank screen wondering what to write...is it too soon to return to my ramblings about adapting to life in the rectory? I have missed the comradery of Bloggers but I needed to focus on settling. I have woken this morning with the urge to write again - so much is changed, so much is changing. The Church of England seems to be changing. Our valley churches are changing. I am changing. Does this mean I am shaping up into a Rector's wife? I don't think so - I still feel like a square peg in a round hole but I need to write to remind myself of how far the Rector@6 and I have come since arriving in the valley for The Interview three years ago. I need to record the changes that have happened so that it might give myself (and others) hope. There have been some difficult times and the Rector@6 has even applied for a couple of jobs and he has got as far as being interviewed for one. We both knew it was too soon (was it the thought of escaping ....running away?). We both knew it was not right for us (the Rector@6 had even said that he would not accept the job at the interview - if offered - which it wasn't!). I'd like to say that we don't wake up on a Friday morning and turn on our iPad search the vacancy list in the Church Times ....but that wouldn't be true. This weekly scanning of the vacancy pages helps to remind us how fortunate we really are!
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ReplyDeleteYes, the old bucolic image ofvthe village parson in his rectory with his lovely old church and many church-going parishioners persists in our memory, but it's not like that anymore.
I remember being disconcerted at meeting a ?Rector in Wiltshire who loaded up a minibus with a choir and tore around the area delivering services chop-chop-chop all through Sunday; matins and communions and evensongs and who knows what...
I was too young to think about all the church committees and meetings and bazaars and tea afternoons that went along with this.
I hope you are doing more than just surviving in your current place!
with best wishes for whatever you do
Hello, thanks for commenting. I think I am writing again because I think I am doing more than surviving now but it has taken a long time to realise that. It IS such hard work ..and I'm not the rector! I dream of a 'normal' life with weekends and booked holidays but loads of people don't have this. After all - what's 'normal' these days?!
DeleteWelcome back to Blogland ... I will admit pleasant surprise when I noticed you had posted!
ReplyDeleteJust as long the square peg doesn't become rounded off to fit in the circular hole ... it is those square edges that are interesting and ... make a difference!! Would you be happy if 'life was easy'? A challenge keeps us on our toes:)
What is normal ... boring?
Hello! It is good to be back - I have deliberately avoided opening Blogger for over a year and I realised yesterday how much I had missed keeping up with everyone. I'm still the square peg with a few dents and cracks in me...life would be so much easier if I was round!
DeleteI actually said Yay! when I saw your Blog title. I am so glad you are back. Welcome home. I have found that I am not writing nearly as much as I want to, for lack of inspiration mostly, but sometimes I just don't want to write. I sometimes feel like a square peg, but other times I think I am just where I am supposed to be. If only those two thoughts would stop fighting with each other. Keep on keeping on.
ReplyDeleteIts really good to be back and catching up with everyone's blog - I didn't realise how much I had missed everything but I just couldn't write - even the photographs I have taken have been ****! I hope this is a new phase and I can move on again. It's so good to hear from you!
DeleteHow good to see you back in blogdom, Harriet. I've wondered how things have been with you, so I'm glad to see you're surviving, even if life isn't straightforward. In parish life I think it rarely is.
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