One of the strangest conversations I ever had in the Wesley Theological Seminary Refectory was one morning when Dr. Logan called me over to where he was having his morning repast with some other professors and staff members.
"Someone you know asked about you in Rio."
????
"Really?"
"I think he said he is related to you but I'm not sure who."
There was a worldwide Methodist Conference down there.
After a few more minutes of the guessing game, Dr. Logan described the encounter enough for me to realize that one of my cousins who is married to a pastor who was involved in a big organization in the UMC was the one Dr. Logan met.
Sweet.
For over six years I was in one way or another at home at Wesley . . . working there full-time and taking classes part time from the early 90s and then living on campus in a student apartment until I was ordained in the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference of the UMC in June of 1996.
On a beautiful little corner of the land that includes The American University in upper northwest DC, Wesley is a delightful place and I loved living there. Was actually kind of disappointed when it was finally time to stop studying and head out to a parsonage and to serve some congregations. But there's a time for everything as we know.
The Refectory has huge two-story windows on three sides and looks out onto the grounds which are more like a park. Flocks of swooping pigeons waft past the corners of the windows and though Dr Logan sometimes disparagingly called them "flying rate", I always liked them and called them the "guardian pigeons" because they would hang out overlooking the parking lot on top of an AU dorm.
Then one day when I was waiting for a bus on the AU campus, one of the students told me that a nickname for Wesley was "The Angel Factory"!
College students are so cute.
I met Henri Nouwen in the Refectory one Christmastime as he was meeting with the L'Arche community in the DC area. Since his writings had been very important to me on my own spiritual journey, that was really a blessing.
(Oh . . . of course Dr. Logan was just teasing with the rats comment.)
Go up to visit the campus sometime if you feel like it. You will enjoy the peace and beauty.
Hope you are aware of all the love and blessings in your life this morning and always, Beloved.
Take care.
"Someone you know asked about you in Rio."
????
"Really?"
"I think he said he is related to you but I'm not sure who."
There was a worldwide Methodist Conference down there.
After a few more minutes of the guessing game, Dr. Logan described the encounter enough for me to realize that one of my cousins who is married to a pastor who was involved in a big organization in the UMC was the one Dr. Logan met.
Sweet.
For over six years I was in one way or another at home at Wesley . . . working there full-time and taking classes part time from the early 90s and then living on campus in a student apartment until I was ordained in the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference of the UMC in June of 1996.
On a beautiful little corner of the land that includes The American University in upper northwest DC, Wesley is a delightful place and I loved living there. Was actually kind of disappointed when it was finally time to stop studying and head out to a parsonage and to serve some congregations. But there's a time for everything as we know.
The Refectory has huge two-story windows on three sides and looks out onto the grounds which are more like a park. Flocks of swooping pigeons waft past the corners of the windows and though Dr Logan sometimes disparagingly called them "flying rate", I always liked them and called them the "guardian pigeons" because they would hang out overlooking the parking lot on top of an AU dorm.
Then one day when I was waiting for a bus on the AU campus, one of the students told me that a nickname for Wesley was "The Angel Factory"!
College students are so cute.
I met Henri Nouwen in the Refectory one Christmastime as he was meeting with the L'Arche community in the DC area. Since his writings had been very important to me on my own spiritual journey, that was really a blessing.
(Oh . . . of course Dr. Logan was just teasing with the rats comment.)
Go up to visit the campus sometime if you feel like it. You will enjoy the peace and beauty.
Hope you are aware of all the love and blessings in your life this morning and always, Beloved.
Take care.
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