A new chapter is coming...

I'm being confirmed tomorrow!!!!  As I sit here on Good Friday (it has been a long day), I can feel the excitement rising within my being. 

When I first learned I would have to go through the RCIA classes with folks who were coming into the Church and had never been baptized, Catholic, received the Eucharist, etc., I was beside myself.  Why couldn't the Bishop just confirm me?  I was a Catholic, for crying out loud!  My family re-located 3 times (cross-country) while I was in high school, so I had not been confirmed.  Why wouldn't my Church just put their hands on me, and give me the Sacrament I still needed?

The Deacon who is in charge of the  RCIA program at my parish was adament.  This is the way you must do it, he said. 

And now, as the Easter Vigil Mass approaches, I am ever so grateful that I had to go through the process of RCIA.  I have met so many people, shared my conversion story (which moved the whole room to tears and brought hugs from complete "strangers", ((not strangers any longer)), and learned so much about humility and the power of community that I must once again thank the wisdom of the Church for standing firm in the Truth and demanding more from Her members. 

Pride...when will I be done with you?  You are like a bad relationship, and I can't get rid of you. 

My anticipation for all that is to come has brought reflection of the recent past, and has made me want to share my conversion story on here.  Not that anyone actually reads this...the thought of starting a blog about myself is sort of nauseating to begin with.  Who am I?  Just another human who knows the truth.  And wants to share it.  In hopes that someone will see it, and come to know the happiness and fulfillment that I have found in Christ Jesus, our Lord. 

Conversion story to come...In the meantime, Happy Easter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!