Let me begin by describing something of my work and relationships. Over the past twenty-five-plus years,
my work has been with people and the organizations they inhabit. As a licensed counselor, I worked
primarily with family systems. Then, with an eye toward working with larger systems, I earned a Ph.D.
and began the work of influencing organizational performance.
Attending to my relationships with God and others, my religious calling, I was ordained by Bishop Robert Moody in June, 1997. I have incorporated both counseling and organizational development into my diaconal work.
I am married to my wonderful Marian, now for over 20 years. It seems like a happy few months. While I am “Tony” to my step-daughters and sons-in-law, and “Daddy” to my daughter, now I am “Grandpa” – a title that brings me great joy!
While jobs and careers, titles and licenses, memberships and identities, all the stuff of life -- the “doing” of life – changes over time, what I am coming to more fully realize is a constant -- the “being” of life, or more accurately, the “Being” of life -- is God’s love and Jesus’ guiding presence. I too often forget this, but in my clearer moments, I do not believe but know, it is so.