p.s. i also really like Sara Groves!

Deb–> It’s good you aren’t saying I have all the answers because boy, would that just add to your pile of shattered dreams! It sounds like you’re asking really important questions Deb and they echo the very questions I began asking after the reconciliation of my faith and sexuality. I had the shattered dreams too Deb and so I’m acquainted with the grief, disappointment and confusion that accompanies all that. I was so sure I knew what my life in ministry would look like. I’d prepared for it. I’d prayed for it. I’d dreamed of it. For a time it came true in a big way and then upon coming out it was all lost. But the beauty of it all, once the dust settled was that it was all replaced with even more than I could have ever imagined. As I said to someone else in another way, I knew I was called to ministry and somewhere along the way I attached a whole bunch of specifics around what that ministry would look like but all those specifics were limited to my vision and so when they were taken away I feared my call to ministry was removed as well. It took me some time to see that the call to ministry was from God and so while positions could be taken and doors to particular ministries shut, no one could take God’s call on my life from me. God gave it and God sustained it, giving it a whole other form and outlet. I can’t tell you what to expect specifically Deb, but what I have all the confidence in the world of telling you is that you can expect good things!