Last Sunday at the Chapel in the Hills

Today was not de javu all over again. When I left the pastorate in 1996 I was coming off a major depression, and I knew I had to do something else; I didn't exactly know what. It so happened that I found work in the financial services industry, but I didn't have much of a sense of calling to that work. Now I'm leaving pastoral ministry again, but with a keen sense of call to sustainable living and producing food.

I'll be spending two months getting ready for my apprenticeship in Nova Scotia. The farm in Lee County, Texas is on the market. I'll be tying up loose ends there: selling livestock (cattle, pigs, chickens), getting rid of accrued junk, and spiffing things up. I'll also be Kathy's house boy and love slave.

At the end of February I will strike out for the great white north. It will take four days driving, about 10 hours per day. I'll spend a weekend with Hannah, Gabe and Eamon in Washington, D.C. My first order of business in Nova Scotia will be to attend the Atlantic Canada Organic Regional Network conference in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. My mentor, Norbert Kungl, will attend with me. Then we'll return to his farm near Windsor, NS, to prepare for the return of Spring.

So that's the tentative plan. I'll keep you up on the unfolding of this adventure.

John