sermons are written.
worship activity packs + costumes are assembled.
gifts are wrapped.
champagne is popped -
feeling weirdly, unsettlingly together this Christmas week 🤣

pest control guy came to church today, and standing in my office, he said ‘you don’t look like a pastor. you know, you’re young and…a girl’ - to which I said, ‘take it up with God’ and that’s about as charitably as can respond ✨

just had to use my inhaler after blowing out my advent candles - and that pretty much sums up clergy in advent 3 😅

current level of Sunday afternoon pastor brain: I just got a text from my next door neighbor that my keys are in fact still in my front door 😅

there’s no better way to end the work week than with coaching 🫠✨

just your stereotypical vegetarian millennial, bringing kale salad to family thanksgiving 🫠

any time she sees my sister’s phone, my two year old niece demands ‘I want Lala!!’ and doesn’t relent until I’m facetimed in - my work cementing myself as the fun aunt is officially done ✨🤪

there is absolutely nothing more clutch than having a (supportive) retired DS to direct all obscure polity questions to at your charge conference 😆

one of these days I’ll master the art of the diy haircut and stop having to spend the next week cutting more tiny pieces each time I do my hair 😵‍💫

the downside of growing up with siblings is that I’m far too comfortable responding to names that aren’t mine. today the barista held up a coffee and said, ‘order for Rachel’ and I went to take it on autopilot before remembering that is not in fact my name or my coffee 😂😵‍💫

being asked to read people’s BOOM papers is such an honor - what a gift, to be invited into the space of their experience of God in community 💜

sure, charge conference is in like 6 days, seems like a great time to -start- panic doing all my paperwork 🫠

doing the Lord’s work, educating the elder millennial:

the absolute only time I miss being an associate is charge conference paperwork season 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

pastors on Sundays:

an average day in the family group message:

is this where all my -unhinged- thoughts go now?