...before you were born                     I consecrated you,                  I appointed you                                     a spokesman to the peoples.                                                     -- Jeremiah 1:5 Ordination doesn't give me anything I don't already have, whether spirit or authority. This rite is only public recognition  that I have things to give and am prepared to give them despite my seeming youth. If it's really God who bestows these orders, no human can defrock me for heresy or insubordination. So long as I am still attuned to today's reality, the one who's really Real will continue to support me against all odds and opposition. But should I ever cease to give all that I've been given or stop listening for his voice in what today has happened, it would be I who vacates this post of watchman for the Truth.                                                                    -- Mahlon H Smith