Tomorrow is the end of the first part of our training. One of the rewards of completing this first month is that we get to wear the army beret instead of the cap.
The beret is ridiculous. First of all, you've got to literally shave the thing to get all the black fuzzies off. Then you have to wet it down and spend hours to get it shaped to your head. It is quite the pain in the butt and I still don't have it looking right, which means I'll be looking like a fool tomorrow.
Whatever........
The other great reward is tomorrow we are done at noon. This is big. I preached on Tuesday and Wednesday this week and was up to like midnight the night before preparing. Not fun when you are waking up at 4:45 AM. I was pleased with each sermon. It was good to finally be doing something I was comfortable doing. It has been drilled into us that the Chief of Chaplains thinks the current state of Army preaching is poor. That gives me some hope. I still feel overwhelmed with the learning curve, but I am always that way in the beginning of a new adventure.
With a light weekend coming up, I'll be sure to get some more posts up here.
RIP Michael Jackson. I did own Thriller at one point in time.
God is good! Thanks KH for your letter. I appreciate it....and I am forever Pjim to you!!!! I'm pjim to only a few hundred people in this world and I wear that title with a tremendous amount of pride.....
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I was searching around for CH-BOLC blogs becuase I will be there this summer and I wanted to get an idea of what I was getting my 40 year old body into. I noticed you were from PA, so I thought I would say Congrats on CIMT and Phase 1. I am also from PA. I live in the Lebanon area. I appreciate your posts. I now have a pretty good idea of what to expect.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Chuck
how cool is that? I feel famous.
ReplyDeleteI'm 41. There are plenty of folks older than me. There's a 51 year old lady here....
glad they help! I did the same thing before I got here.
That is SO cool!!! So many reasons for your blog!
ReplyDeleteYou better post a picture of the reward of your beret! BTW you look "great" in your uniform! I can't say handsome, I've read! :)
I'm glad you're finally getting to deliver some sermons. The folks down there are very FORTUNATE to get to hear them! Sounds like they really are fortunate, huh? Maybe that's why you were called to the army...
MISS YOU!
Heather
PS: Agreed! RIP MJ (what a trajic life) ... and Farrah :(