Well, maybe not "several", but I know I have a lot of things on my mind still. First month as WM for Laf123 and I'm doing okay for now, but I can see how the tasks at hand would make one both proud and insane at the same time.
Let me explain. WM means "Worshipful Master", a title and a position and a responsibility and a few more things all at once. It is both guide to all my brothers and servant to them at the same time. It is the compilation of dichotomies that I find so intriguing. So utterly encompassing. Some of the brothers are people I have known for years with a few of them having been my brothers long before we were joined within the Craft. I have along with them, so many others that I have met with each one having helped me on this journey we are all taking together.
A Lodge is a collection of brothers who have come together to perform various tasks and labors. Who determines those tasks and labors? Well, supposedly I do. But the truth is, the Lodge does. I'm merely someone whom is to take responsibility for those T&L we perform. I have to make sure the T&L are things we can accomplish, bringing enrichment to the Lodge, the Brothers and the Community (locally or at Large, it matters not).
I was asked by a brother last year why I wanted this job? He told me he had heard from several brothers that thought I wanted it for the Power. In the end, I must admit, the Power did have something to do with it. But it's the Power that is needed to help sustain our Lodge. To get us onto a track of success and hopefully continue the pattern of growth we've had for the more recent few years. When the brother and friend asked me last year as he did, I seem to remember telling him that there were other reasons. Many of them had to do with feeling it was time. Had to do with trying to become a more direction-oriented leader than we've hand in recent years. And I don't mean that in any form of belittlement. I do mean it however because for what is now known to have been for too long we have only been "existing".
Any person who wants to have a fulfilling life knows however that "existing" is not "LIVING". It's a sad and pale shadow of that. So that is what we are trying to do now. We are trying to become a "Living Lodge". Something that shows vibrance and vitality, and does in fact enrich the lives of those we are graced with having around us daily.
But yet, I am still pondering this odd sensation. The sensation that this is still but a Shadow of what we should yet be???
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