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keepcruising2016-06-11 06:02 pm
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It's about three months into Asher Williams' first assignment as a priest. At first, the idea had been daunting, but he's found himself settling in well and he's growing increasingly fond of the people he sees every week.
At first, many of them hadn't shied away from pointing out that he's quite a bit younger than the man he'd replaced, but he's mostly proven himself to be more capable and patient than they might have expected from a man in his early 30s. He does his best to carry himself as a much older man might, even if he lets a few things like his red hair slip through.
Today, he's greeting people after mass, asking a kind old woman about her grandchildren and congratulating a new mother when he looks up and catches sight of Lassiter, throwing a small wave his way and extricating himself from his current conversation. They've only spoken a few times, but Asher likes to keep up a friendly rapport with everyone he sees regularly.
At first, many of them hadn't shied away from pointing out that he's quite a bit younger than the man he'd replaced, but he's mostly proven himself to be more capable and patient than they might have expected from a man in his early 30s. He does his best to carry himself as a much older man might, even if he lets a few things like his red hair slip through.
Today, he's greeting people after mass, asking a kind old woman about her grandchildren and congratulating a new mother when he looks up and catches sight of Lassiter, throwing a small wave his way and extricating himself from his current conversation. They've only spoken a few times, but Asher likes to keep up a friendly rapport with everyone he sees regularly.
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"Thank you. It was one of my favorites so far." He shifts his weight from one foot to the other. "I've been seeing a lot of you lately, haven't I?"
He does pay attention to things like that, tries to know everyone that he can. It's important to him that he take an interest in people and their lives and that they feel that they can come to him with anything they might struggle with. Helping people is what brought him to the priesthood.
That many of the people who come to him are women has not been at the forefront if his thoughts. He'd never paid much attention to women as more than simply people, even before he'd decided to enter the priesthood. Friends and family had always interested him more, anyway.