Sixth Sunday of Easter - John 14: 23-29
Rev. Susan Lodge-Calvert writes:
My birth name is Susan Grace but I am known to most as Sue, Rev'd Sue, or if in trouble as Susan. I live on the south coast of Western Australia high on a hill looking out across the various shades of green to the ever changing blues of the inlet and the great southern ocean. It is incredibly beautiful. It may sound idyllic but it is also real life with a community that is a blessing and a challenge at times, a new marriage (even though we are both in our sixties) with recognisable old issues to be addressed yet again, the inconvenient distance from my family and friends in the city, and my own ageing body to be made peace with.
I was born the eldest of four children to wheat and sheep farmers Laurel and Cedric in dry inland Australia. We had a tough but wonderfully free range childhood. At age twelve we transitioned to living in the city after years of drought drove us off our property. At age thirteen I gave my life to Christ and so began the long and often meandering spiritual journey that has led me here, to this time and space, and to you reading this.
I was a social worker for twenty five years, working as clinician, teacher and consultant, when I discerned a call to the ordained priesthood. Looking back it makes sense but at the time I was fairly shaken and disorientated.
I was then in parish ministry for fifteen years, in two different communities – city and then country. And now I am retired from paid work with a license to officiate when called upon within the Anglican tradition. My website now is my most demanding and satisfying ministry.
