After a week of moving in and getting used to these new digs, I finally had my first, somewhat, "official" day as an army chaplain. I think it went well. I was pretty nervous and insecure about my lack of military knowledge. It becomes evident in so many different places, in knowing how to do the stretches in PT (different here than in training), how to salute (again, different here than what I was taught), .......
Nonetheless, I do think today went well. I've already got a couple of soldiers I'm scheduled to connect with for counsel and I have three more I need to pursue tomorrow. I'm looking forward to those. I'm also doing a prayer at a change of command ceremony on Wednesday.
I spent some time in my office, which isn't the sexiest slice of the pie you could get but whatever....a little love and it'll have some character. The office will be the place I do a majority of my counseling, so I want it to be both disarming and comfortable. I'm sitting here wondering if Jesus would put pictures up if he had an office. I guess he'd hand a picture of mom. A pic of dad would be interesting. A pic of Jesus standing next to a bush on fire, with the caption underneath.... "me and dad"....
tangent...
I cannot believe the Pats lost yesterday. I was unable to watch it cause we didn't sign up for cable. Just glad I wasn't able to listen to WFAN and hear JETS fans gloat.....
I need to stop making the excuse of, "I'm brand new, so I don't know what I'm doing". It shows my insecurity. I did it to my command seargant major this afternoon. He was gracious but I don't think I left him with an "army strong" impression. Who knows. I do know that when the dust settles he'll be glad I'm on his team, I just want the learning curve to move quickly.
I was also issued a ton of army supplies today...helmet, battle armor and other stuff like that. I also went to the motor pool and saw my and my chaplains assitants vehicle this morning. My own humvee. Yipee,,,,,
Keri is now home from her ladies bible study. gotta run...
grace and blessings!!!
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