The urgent, lonely, relevant, humbling, joyful experience being a newly-ordained priest

I never wanted to be a priest. As a child I wanted to be an architect. I liked drawing. I watched a lot of “This Old House” (PBS’s HGTV before there was an HGTV). I suppose I just wanted to make a better place of this world, a safer place, a kinder place. My mother occasionally refers to me as her Buddha- baby—the middle child born with eyes wide open, calm and observant. If I ever saw things clearly, I also remember wanting for them to be different than they were. I deeply wanted for us to treat each other better than we did. I wanted suffering to stop. I wanted things to change.

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/12/13/urgent-lonely-relevant-humbling-joyful-experience-being-newly-ordained-priest