Well, I am actually almost Lutheran, sort of. Growing up out in the Hoosier hinterlands of southern Indiana the closest church was St. John's Lutheran Church. Pastor Jackson was a really great guy and smiled obligingly when we played endless baseball games behind the church, and didn't even get mad when we used a lawn mower to carve out three golf holes on church property while he was on vacation. On the first hole you teed off under the willow tree and played parallel to the road; on the second hold you hit over the graveyard; and the third hole was a real short par three with a precipitous drop-off after the green into a cow pasture. To make up for my sins I actually attended Bible study for a while as preparation for being baptized, but I was reading a couple Erich von Daniken books at the time and spent the whole time "analyzing" text for proof of aliens so the decision was made that maybe I wasn't quite ready for conversion. However, we parted on the best of terms.
So what does this relate to today? My excellent friend Andy, who works in the library here at Champlain, and his even more excellent girlfriend Heidi, who works in the library at Norwich University, are getting married this summer and asked me to precide over the ceremony. Yes, I don't believe it either, but it makes me so incredibly proud and happy. I love them both and I was just happy being invited to the ceremony to share the day with them, let alone anything else. Of course, there is the small problem of the fact that I need to get ordained. However, our excellent friends Kerry and Steve were both ordained online and have married several of their friends, so we'll sort this out somehow. And bringing it all back around - I asked Heidi if there was some particular online church where I should go for ordination. Her response, "It doesn't matter to me, but if my grandma asks you're Lutheran." Doubtless there, will be much more on this adventure in the coming months.
So what does this relate to today? My excellent friend Andy, who works in the library here at Champlain, and his even more excellent girlfriend Heidi, who works in the library at Norwich University, are getting married this summer and asked me to precide over the ceremony. Yes, I don't believe it either, but it makes me so incredibly proud and happy. I love them both and I was just happy being invited to the ceremony to share the day with them, let alone anything else. Of course, there is the small problem of the fact that I need to get ordained. However, our excellent friends Kerry and Steve were both ordained online and have married several of their friends, so we'll sort this out somehow. And bringing it all back around - I asked Heidi if there was some particular online church where I should go for ordination. Her response, "It doesn't matter to me, but if my grandma asks you're Lutheran." Doubtless there, will be much more on this adventure in the coming months.
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| Me: "Heidi, how in the hell did you let Andy talk you into this?" Heidi: "It was my idea." Me: [too choked up to respond] |
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