a prayer for selection conference
Friday, 27 June 2008
God, you have given us diverse gifts, and call us to diverse forms of ministry;
we thank you for the opportunity to meet together today to explore our vocations.
Give wisdom to the members of the interview panel and the examining chaplains,
as they decide on their recommendations to the bishops;
and give patience and calm to the candidates, as we wait for the decisions of the church.
We pray in the name of Jesus our Lord; Amen.
The interview process takes six hours (for the candidates; the selectors stayed on to make their decisions) and was thorough and exhausting. This is the culmination of at least a year of prayer, and meetings and interviews of various kinds. The four of us who were interviewed today will not be told of the outcome until at least after the end of the Lambeth Conference, as that is the priority for the bishops – we have about two months to wait. Life will have to go on in those two months.
I think I presented myself as truthfully, comprehensively and consistently as I could. There is no point in anxiously fretting or reviewing the process – what I might have missed, or said badly – all I can do is wait.
