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Finally someone who understands the predicament of female ministers!!

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I can’t believe it!  There is a website dedicated to the pursuit of the fashion conscious female pastor.  I actually thought it was a spoof until I began reading some of the posts.

http://beautytipsforministers.com/

Now this is a site for me!!  I love fashion, makeup, bags, the whole nine yards.  I do not want to end up looking frumpy and out of touch.

Why am I concerned about this you ask?  Well….a couple of reasons.  First, I think guys have it way easier than the women do when it comes to looking good as a pastor.  For guys, scrape the face each morning, brush hair, put on pitstick and maybe some aftershave, and make sure the clothes are clean.  BINGO!! Looking Gooood!!  For women, especially fashion conscious females, it is not so easy.  Our morning routine is much more complicated and we have the added bonus of pressure from who-knows-where of looking good, else we be placed into the category of frumpyness.  YIKES!!!!  Not for this vicar that’s for sure!!

Second, I have been thinking about my internship, which begins next Tuesday!!!  Yeah, it is really happening!  I cannot believe it!   And because of this I have been thinking how I will be *seen*.  I guess it is just a case of nerves and wondering about the future.  Stay tuned, I will keep y’all up to date.  Until then….where’s my lipstick????

Welcome to my new home

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Hi! Thanks for stopping by.  Its nice to see you.  Yes I have moved.  I decided to change to a new home because…well, because I have changed and I didn’t see anything on blogger that would reflect this change.

I have been thinking a lot about what my blog says about me and what I want it to say.  What started this thinking and the subsequent change of blog spot was my friend Eric and his post from Saturday July 12. Seminary is certainly a time of change.  We enter with our own agendas but God has a different plan for us.  We become enmeshed in God’s agenda and are forever changed by it.  A friend of mine told me once that being in seminary is like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly – there is lots of effort and love to become transformed into a new creation.  God’s love is the transforming agent.

When I began this journey it felt so impossible to achieve; so many hurdles to overcome.  But now as I am entering into my internship year, I feel that the transformation God has started in me has brought me to a place that allows me to see that things are possible through God’s gift of grace.  I am proof of this as you are too.  Grace happens when we least expect it.

PAX

Jenn