What can I say? I've got grainiac writer's block! I've thought about you. I've wrestled with myself to write on this blog and yet, I kept coming up dry. I wanted to give you a little heads up. I leave Sunday for my seminary studies. If you think you get "closer" to God going to seminary, think again. My head is so full of reading material: skimming chapters so I can get the gist of what the book is about and writing papers to fulfill a deadline that I haven't had a chance to absorb what I've read. Is this the norm? Is this a seminarian life? I imagine many feel the same way I do and for some (not me) they receive a call into active parish life. Minds filled with thoughts and processes and ideas but really unsure WHAT they believe. I could be wrong. It might just be me wrestling with my vocation at this moment.
I'm back to "what do I want to be" when I grow up. I have really gotten into the New Testament. I love the NT. I had thoughts of studying more and perhaps becoming a NT scholar. I wrestled in Christian Ethics with our over-consumeristic ways and joined every eco-theology online magazine subscription. I even based my supervised practice ministry on eco-theology: gardening (you can't get much more back to the basics than The Garden, eh?). Gardening is a spiritual practice. We began in a garden. Even the dinosaurs needed a garden for survival....in the beginning. Not sure what happened later but that's not what is important-- it's God's timing; not ours.
So it is that time of the year when I pack up my clothes and books and papers and head for the hills. I pray there is time for some reflection. I NEED some meditation time....or possibly some medication time!
I promise to check in and keep you in the loop.
Toodles for now!
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