Last time, I detailed my journey from spiritual community to spiritual community from Sevierville, TN to Columbus, OH. I left off with the somewhat ominous and vague “and then came real life.” That may sound a bit dramatic but that’s because, for me at least, it was.

In the months between graduation from divinity school and moving to Ohio, I struggled with the fear that I didn’t know how to work, just how to get through school. After seven years of college with only a few odd, minimum-wage jobs along the way, it felt like...