[Magdalen] Life's blessings

[Marion Thompson]

I have certainly not disappeared, but have soldiered on and really I 
have found a niche that works for me.  Far better than creeping away as 
others have done.  This has worked for me.

Marion, a  pilgrim


On 10/22/2016 4:59 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> IThe best course of action is
> to disappear. That's what I did. It just was too painful to look at
> people's eyes and know I was being judged. And the day the bishop and I
> came face to face and he just acted like there was nothing going on. Had to
> get away. At this late date, I have come back in a very cautious way, at a
> new parish.  I don't bring up my past, except to the rector, so he knows
>   the score. Most of the people involved in my case have move on or moved
> out.
>
> No human-based process can ever be perfect. None.
>
> I try to think that my rejection helped me dodge a bullet, as hurtful to so
> many as it was.
>
>
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 9:37 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think I've said this before,
>> but anyway ...
>> I have several friends who were denied ordination,
>> and some of them were terribly wounded by the experience.
>> A couple of them have had very nasty passive-aggressive
>> relations with the church, maybe as a kind of revenge.
>> Or else the committee & bishop made a good call.
>> Not sure which.
>>
>> I wish the church did a better job with the aftermath/fallout.
>> But the tendency is to drop people HARD and then turn away.
>>
>> One of my friends (most assuredly now held in Jesus' arms)
>> was of the older school, men who couldn't meet the Latin requirement.
>> He spent his life in the church, exercising a deaconal ministry,
>> and died much loved and admired by the parish.
>> IMO (in my observation) the RCs are much better at this than we are.
>> -M
>>
>>
>> On Friday, October 21, 2016, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> open the door a crack and let out some pain that lurks in the shadows.
>>> Isn't this all why people go to therapists and talk things out?  I could
>>> keep one busy for a very long time.
>>>
>>>