Vicar's Family in Training » moaning http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk on being the family of a woman training to be a priest in the Church of England Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:54:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 For now we see through a glass, darkly http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/archives/91 http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/archives/91#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:20:28 +0000 husband http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/?p=91 Some years ago I played bass in an ad-hoc worship band. We had a curmudgeonly but inspirational drummer called Bob, who was immensely good fun to make music with.  We would each get asked to read bible passages from time to time, and on one occasion the task fell to Bob who, it turned out,  [...]]]> Some years ago I played bass in an ad-hoc worship band. We had a curmudgeonly but inspirational drummer called Bob, who was immensely good fun to make music with.  We would each get asked to read bible passages from time to time, and on one occasion the task fell to Bob who, it turned out,  had left his glasses at home.  So he had to hold the bible as far away from him as he could in order to focus.  Inevitably the passage was 1 Corinthians 13:12  “For now we see through a glass*, darkly…” which he read slowly and falteringly since he could hardly see the words.   Hold that picture in your mind.

Apart from a few blips, being at Coverdale Hall has been pretty positive for VIT so far. She’s with a great group of people, the lectures are mostly good, she loves the pattern of morning worship, the evening Eucharists are wonderful. She’s learning lots about things she’s never done, as well as more about things she was already pretty competent in. As oldest VKIT would say: “It’s all good.”

In the light of that it may seem odd that I have struggled to see the brighter side of it at times. After years of waiting for this, and huge excitement when it all finally was going ahead, now the reality – which in detail are a whole bunch of things which are neither interesting or any one’s business except mine – has rather got hold of me and rendered me something of a miserable bugger about the whole thing.

On reflection – which always happens too late at night but maybe that’s when one’s guard is down – this has to be a shame.   A shame for VIT and the rest of us.

So, as well as giving up walking for Lent (knee operation) I have decided a few days into Lent that regarding that darkly seen glass as half full rather than half empty would be a good thing.  So far I have managed to do that about being on crutches, so maybe I can do it about being a VHIT as well.

* I know that “glass” in the KJV really refers to a mirror – as in Looking-Glass – but it spoils the story and the point of this post. So please bear with the pragmatism

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