Priestliness

(Well, doesn't this just sum everything up.)

So, that same friend at that same lunch, the one where we talked about money on the table.

She said something wonderfully sad to me. She said, I know that you are a priest but I don't know what kind of priest you are, so I don't know what to do about it. This is wonderfully sad, it turns out, because she was on my second discernment committee. I've been hearing people tell me this for 7 years now.

I really don't know what the next line of this conversation is. I don't know what kind of priest I am either, I just know I am the kind that God made me to be.