3. Bio: "METAMORPHOUS"

The metamorphosis process of the caterpillar becoming a butterfly captured my imagination very early in life . . . We lived, ‘way out in the sticks’, a phrase often heard. I was not sure what this phrase ‘really’ meant relative to where anyone else lived? For me it meant a very, ‘ beautiful place’, with so much to discover and do. One of my most meaningful experiences was spent trying to ‘catch’ the ‘moment’ when a ‘watched’ cocoon would produce its butterfly . . . I never did see a butterfly emerge from the cocoon in its, ‘process-of-becoming’. Or, did I? . . .

My own life has surely seen a ‘many-staged’ personal metamorphous process in its own, 'becoming winged’ . . . There is still much more work needed for the full unfolding of all ‘winged-possibilities’ for this 65 year-old to reach the ‘range’ and ‘expanse’ of potential!. . . But, with deepest gratitude for the dedicated, patient support and encouragement of my beloved Husband, Fr. William, along with our Families and Friends, my ‘wings’ have definitely now been ‘enabled’ . . . We can actually ‘see’ this butterfly’s wings unfolding and even beginning to, ‘flutter’, with delighted anticipation of what, ‘full flight’, might mean!? Whew . . . that cocoon was so ‘stuffy’, anyway!

The ‘steps’ in my own metamorphous process has taken me from ‘single’; to ‘cloistered Carmelite nun’; to ‘wife’ . . . From Donna Amy Nash; to Sr. Gordon Helene of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel; to Mrs. William Podobinski, wife of a married Roman Catholic Priest . . . From, ‘by nature’, being a, 100% ‘introvert’ (according to testing done in the Carmelite Monastery), with ‘learning/dyslexic’ challenges, to, now, actually doing a Blog, thanks to Louise Haggett! She is exceedingly gifted for, and has been given the mission to 'call forth' the ministerial gifts of married priests and their wives for the health and wellbeing of Christ’s whole Body.

Over the years, during the entire process of breaking through secure ‘cocoon’ walls, there has been one, constant, ‘life-lesson’: The metamorphous ‘process’ effects everyone else’s life, as well . . . for better or for worse. (See, "Motherhood in Presence")