With great trembling and adequately stupendous anticipation I await the next semester.  This grand thrill of joy and wonder will be short lived, and will be replaced with breath-taking speed by the crushing despair of unfinished reading, and looming papers full of increasingly doubtful scholarship.  Which leads to the ultimate question - this is preparing me for ministry how? 
Before then though, I retreat in search of meaning and purpose.  I am convinced that this time, I will actually find it.  Except that if I actually found it what would I do with it?  I suspect it is rather like the dog who actually catches the car....  But none of that despair!  Come forth and discover the - the what?  I have no idea.  But no matter - it should be fun.  And it is just possible that even I will be able to find God there.  It is always nice when that happens....
Next semester includes a preaching class - which is not scheduled to be a great success.  But I just have to pass.  It is that greatest of all cliches - going beyond the comfort zone.  Why do we have to go beyond the comfort zone?  It is comfortable in that zone.
As you can see, I have nothing much to say here, but felt I should pretend to be a blogging type person....  Perhaps something of note will happen, and I will have something of some vaguely interest producing thing to write about.  But probably not.  I have a remarkably ordinary life...
Happy New Years to all the bloggy type people!
Learning from Yom Kippur
4 years ago

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