Sean Reiser

I have a meeting with Tom Synan next week to discuss conversion (the Bishop comes in May so I want to get the process started) I know this is a paramount step in my life and I'd like to lay out some of what I am thinking.

I've mentioned somewhere in here that for a while I felt distance growing between myself and the Catholic Church, well before I ever set foot in an Episcopalian Church. Since Christmas I have been attending exclusively Episcopalian Churches (I'll document that story when I get caught up from my paper journal in the next few weeks).

I know we're all sinners, but somehow I feel more forgiven since I've been attending an Episcopalian Church. My personal emphases has gone from how I sinned in the past to how I can make up of those sins, how I can avoid making the same mistakes again and moving forward. It's an interesting point of view. I've gone from feeling irredeemable to being worthy. A few people have mentioned that a new job situation agrees with me, I suspect they are seeing this instead.

The last few months have been tough on me, on a personal, professional and financial level. Many mistakes of my past have come to a head. In the past, when going through something like this I would've hid, or resorted to other means. I seem to have tackled this with more integrity then I would have in the past. Some of that is changes in me some of that is related to my exposure to these people and the support of the Church.