Before the Journey Begins...
Before the Journey Begins...
Before I begin, I am new to the blogging world and I hope that this turns out okay.
Resignation
As many of you know, I submitted a letter of resignation to BGS at the end of the school year. As hard as it was to make this huge step in my life, it just felt right. I loved my job and my students and all of the great opportunities I experienced in the past four years, but I felt a deep calling to something more. As I write this first post this morning, I cannot help but to reflect on the amazing memories of teaching middle and high school students these past four years. Their faith and their enthusiasm for religion allowed me to realize my own dreams. For a long time, I felt that I would be a "lifer" at BGS. Instead, God had other plans for me. Just like many times in the past a seed was planted in my heart and I began to once again feel the call to the priesthood. Long story short, I will be starting school at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in the Fall of this year to begin my six year journey towards the priesthood.
Selling the House
About a eighteen months after moving back to my home area, I bought a quaint home in Algona, right across the street from my beloved alma mater. It has a been a great home for me and I will truly miss living here. So after much hesitation, I put the house on the market and am praying daily that it will sell before I leave in August. Yes, for those of you that are wondering, St. Joseph is buried upside down in the front yard. Hopefully through his intercession someone will fall in love with the house, just as I have.
Packing for the Future
Rewind to eight summers ago and I was also packing for the future. I can remember well the summer before I started at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City.
What do I need to pack?
Do I really need that book?
Where is there going to be room for that?
Currently the same questions are going through my head. There is only one slight difference. Eight years ago I only had a room in the farm house I grew up in the pack up. Fast forward to today, and there are rooms in a whole house that need to be gone through. Scaling down from a house back to dorm living will be a very interesting transition for me. I am accustomed to having those few things that make a room or a house feel like home - these things range from a Crucifix or Cross in every room, handmade quilts from various relatives, pictures on the walls, and of course my recliner! As I look around my small home various thing pop out to me as important, but are they truly needed. Only time will tell on that front...for now I do my best to guess what is essential and what is not.
Maybe a person should adopt the style of former religious communities: you get a trunk for all of your possessions. If it didn't fit in the trunk, you didn't need it. Or so I am told my many of the Sisters of St. Francis, with whom I am an associate.
Pax et Bonum,
Jake
Before I begin, I am new to the blogging world and I hope that this turns out okay.
Resignation
As many of you know, I submitted a letter of resignation to BGS at the end of the school year. As hard as it was to make this huge step in my life, it just felt right. I loved my job and my students and all of the great opportunities I experienced in the past four years, but I felt a deep calling to something more. As I write this first post this morning, I cannot help but to reflect on the amazing memories of teaching middle and high school students these past four years. Their faith and their enthusiasm for religion allowed me to realize my own dreams. For a long time, I felt that I would be a "lifer" at BGS. Instead, God had other plans for me. Just like many times in the past a seed was planted in my heart and I began to once again feel the call to the priesthood. Long story short, I will be starting school at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in the Fall of this year to begin my six year journey towards the priesthood.
Selling the House
About a eighteen months after moving back to my home area, I bought a quaint home in Algona, right across the street from my beloved alma mater. It has a been a great home for me and I will truly miss living here. So after much hesitation, I put the house on the market and am praying daily that it will sell before I leave in August. Yes, for those of you that are wondering, St. Joseph is buried upside down in the front yard. Hopefully through his intercession someone will fall in love with the house, just as I have.
Packing for the Future
Rewind to eight summers ago and I was also packing for the future. I can remember well the summer before I started at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City.
What do I need to pack?
Do I really need that book?
Where is there going to be room for that?
Currently the same questions are going through my head. There is only one slight difference. Eight years ago I only had a room in the farm house I grew up in the pack up. Fast forward to today, and there are rooms in a whole house that need to be gone through. Scaling down from a house back to dorm living will be a very interesting transition for me. I am accustomed to having those few things that make a room or a house feel like home - these things range from a Crucifix or Cross in every room, handmade quilts from various relatives, pictures on the walls, and of course my recliner! As I look around my small home various thing pop out to me as important, but are they truly needed. Only time will tell on that front...for now I do my best to guess what is essential and what is not.
Maybe a person should adopt the style of former religious communities: you get a trunk for all of your possessions. If it didn't fit in the trunk, you didn't need it. Or so I am told my many of the Sisters of St. Francis, with whom I am an associate.
Pax et Bonum,
Jake
Good luck as you get ready to move on, I will be praying your house sells!
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