Away

~I'm away at clergy conference for the next day and a half. This is the annual gathering for all the clergy in the diocese. It's supposed to be a time to get away, spend time with colleagues and relax, and it's held at a lovely beach resort. From my perspective, there's a little too much programming for me to consider it to really be relaxing, but it is a lovely place to spend a couple of days.

~I'm enjoying seeing some of my seminary friends and a few people I've met since I came to this diocese, but I still feel a bit like an outsider. I'm not sure why that is so. Maybe it's just my introversion and discomfort with having to mingle in large groups of people I don't know. But there is a part of me that says it not just me and that this diocese is a hard one to break into if you're not from here.

~It's not as warm as I'd like given where we are, but it's bright and sunny, and I hope to get out and take some beach pictures during free time.