A good start to Eastertide

All things considered, the Vigil went beautifully. (The "all things" include the Rector's liturgical ineptitude, which can be maddeningly distracting but last night was decently contained and did not manage to turn my attention from God.) And what am I to make of the fact that multiple people took the occasion to comment on my vocation? One of the adult acolytes urged me repeatedly to hurry it along. "Don't pause, just get it done." (Would that it were up to me!) The Senior Warden told me afterwards that the friend sitting next to her commented after my reading, "He's already a priest." (That friend is herself bound for seminary.)

Since calls come through congregations and not just as a "bolt from the blue," I'm grateful to hear what I trust is the insistent voice of God's call coming through other folks in the parish. But oh, the temptation to draw attention to myself!