Diaconate

I was reviewing my career plans yesterday and put a surprising thing down. I may apply for the diaconate in 6 years. Our girls will be old enough to stay home by themselves in 4 years, which would give me time to resume visiting the shut-in members of my parish, which I hope would help others see me as morally upstanding enough to be a deacon despite my past before I was married. If not, I'll just keep doing the best I can as I am.