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Well, today was my last day at Concordia. I'm kind of bittersweet about it. It was a nice place to work (except that they had problems with people coming in on time for their shifts). I miss the teacher that I worked with. She is a really nice lady and we had lots of fun working together with the kids. We had a great professional friendship, which I hope I can continue outside of the workplace since I no longer work there anymore. I will really miss Lana.
Ok, so I have a week until I will be starting my new job. I will start working at a new school on the 19th of this month. I am looking forward to it. Right now, I'm just glad to have a little break between times. I don't have to work starting tomorrow until the 19th. It's a well deserved break.
Anyways, as I left today my boss gave me a lecture on following my "calling". He told me that he could tell that this wasn't just a "job" for me. He told me to search and pray that I would follow where God is calling me. I told him that I'd been discerning becoming a nun and he told me then I need to get right in there and interview all of the nuns that I know.... LOL, I've been doing this for a LONG time. (Now, this is a big thing, considering that this is a Lutheran school that I'd been working at.)
I got two cherry pies from my boss today. One I split with the kids and the other I kept for myself. The one that I split with the kids and Lana was really yummy.
Yesterday I talked to the vocation director a little bit (not officially) and she gave me the time that the Sisters do their evening prayer. I can't wait to start praying with the Sisters. I'll have to do that next week though because I have to go home this weekend to be around because we have family coming in for my brother's college graduation. While I am happy to see my family, I also want to have my time for myself. That's why I'm going to be staying at my place the whole week after that, even though I am not going to be working. I am looking forward to praying with the Sisters at the provincial house. I think that they do the Divine Office, so I'll have to learn how to follow the book that they use, but I'm super excited to learn how. When I prayed with the Sisters in Cleveland I felt so much like that was what I was called to do. I felt so much at home. And the strange thing is, that I'd prayed the Divine office with the Benedictines before and I really didn't care for how they did it. But these Sisters do it differently. I don't know what it is, but it really appealed to me.
This Sunday, I am going to go to the Sisters' Jubilee celebration. I'm both scared and excited at the same time. What's scary is that I'm going to be walking into a crowd where I'll hardly know anybody. Please pray that perhaps there will be someone nice enough to let me join them. I think it will all be ok, though. That's the feeling that I get when I think about it alot. I know that God is good and that this experience is not gonna kill me. I look forward to meeting some of the other Sisters. That's what I'm excited about!!!
This weekend is also the festival at the Children's Home that I volunteer at. I hope to make it down there sometime this weekend. The vocation director told me that there will be fireworks on Saturday night, so I hope that my family will be satisfied if I make an appearance Friday and Saturday into the afternoon so that I can go see the fireworks in the evening.
I have my official meeting with the vocation director on next Wednesday.
Anywho, wish me luck with everything that I have coming up in the next couple of weeks.
