This is probably about the fifth time I’ve tried to reliably keep a blog. I’ve never really figured out why it is that after about two weeks I always seemed to stop posting. Perhaps this happened because of crazed life of undergraduate and seminary academia, or sheer laziness, or because the people I most wanted to communicate with were generally around me. Or perhaps I didn’t really have anything valuable to say, at least for the web.

But life changes, or at the very least, becomes more complicated. In the span of five years, I have graduated from college, received a masters’ degree, perceived a call pulling me from life as a Chemistry academic to the life of ordained ministry, moved from South Carolina to New York, received another masters’ degree, been ordained as a Deacon, and taken cure as the clergy-in-charge at a 177-year old church in Brooklyn. In nineteen days, I will be ordained as a Priest. I didn’t expect to be here six years ago, and it still often comes as a shock to me now. That’s not to say that this is a bad thing. Not at all - I’ve been incredibly, deeply blessed to journey through the last several years.

Things change. And now I’m finding that it may be worthwhile to keep a blog again. My parishioners have started asking for an online repository of my sermons (which I take as a compliment); this seems like a good way to do that. I certainly have plenty of thoughts and musings on life and ministry as a 26-year old that are worth recording somewhere, even as a simple record of my own evolving ministry.

So I’m trying again. I’ve decided to name the blog from a line in one of my favorite hymns, “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken”: “Safe they feed upon the manna which he gives them when they pray.” Thus “Feeding on Manna.” I’ve been given just the amount of manna I need, like Israel in the desert: not too little, not too much. And lo and behold, it was food enough.

More to follow…