Thursday, March 04, 2004
Pleasantries
My friend from college (who admonished me that he enjoyed being anonymous and reprimanded me for using his name on here, for which I heartily apologize) is here for the end of this week. He has come to look at Seabury as part of his process of discerning where God is calling him for his seminary education. I am very excited that he is here for this visit and have enjoyed spending time with him. So far, he seems to like Seabury and says that he could see himself here, which is a good thing. I hope and pray when he finds the seminary to which God is calling him, he will be able to recognize that and trust in it. It's a very tough decision to have to make and I wish him all the best. For the time being though, I am enjoying his company once again. It's been too long.
I encountered a series of surprises recently, chief among them being that my Gospel Mission II final paper is due Friday, as in, tomorrow! I was under the impression it was due next week as next week is the last week of classes, but that's what I get for not reading my syllabus carefully. The paper topic is to select a missional issue in my home diocese and identify its cultural contexts. Following that, I am to make suggestions on how to effect positive change regarding the issue. The missional context that came immediately to mind was the fact that there is an overwhelmingly large Hispanic population in SW Florida (so much that the chief language being spoken in Florida is not English, but Spanish). Our Episcopal diocese does not, to my knowledge, have any spanish speaking congregations and maybe only a handful of spanish services. So I sat down to write my paper on this topic, but blanked. What I just wrote to you is the extent of my knowledge about the subject. I really don't even know how to come up with 8-10 pages of how to proceed faithfully regarding this important missional context. So, unfortunately, I had to scrap the idea for the purposes of this paper, but I did want to identify that important missional issue here.
For my paper, I decided to write on another important missional issue in my diocese: youth. As I got started, I surprised myself by how passionate I was on the subject. 8-10 pages, as well as suggestions on how to effect positive change, came both quickly and easily, but now I need to go back and make sure it's coherent. And I have to do this quickly, as I have invited several people, including my visiting friend, over tonight for a Scotch (I did this before I realized my paper was due! Go dumb me!) and thus, my evening is likely shot. So, that's where I am right now.
-R
My friend from college (who admonished me that he enjoyed being anonymous and reprimanded me for using his name on here, for which I heartily apologize) is here for the end of this week. He has come to look at Seabury as part of his process of discerning where God is calling him for his seminary education. I am very excited that he is here for this visit and have enjoyed spending time with him. So far, he seems to like Seabury and says that he could see himself here, which is a good thing. I hope and pray when he finds the seminary to which God is calling him, he will be able to recognize that and trust in it. It's a very tough decision to have to make and I wish him all the best. For the time being though, I am enjoying his company once again. It's been too long.
I encountered a series of surprises recently, chief among them being that my Gospel Mission II final paper is due Friday, as in, tomorrow! I was under the impression it was due next week as next week is the last week of classes, but that's what I get for not reading my syllabus carefully. The paper topic is to select a missional issue in my home diocese and identify its cultural contexts. Following that, I am to make suggestions on how to effect positive change regarding the issue. The missional context that came immediately to mind was the fact that there is an overwhelmingly large Hispanic population in SW Florida (so much that the chief language being spoken in Florida is not English, but Spanish). Our Episcopal diocese does not, to my knowledge, have any spanish speaking congregations and maybe only a handful of spanish services. So I sat down to write my paper on this topic, but blanked. What I just wrote to you is the extent of my knowledge about the subject. I really don't even know how to come up with 8-10 pages of how to proceed faithfully regarding this important missional context. So, unfortunately, I had to scrap the idea for the purposes of this paper, but I did want to identify that important missional issue here.
For my paper, I decided to write on another important missional issue in my diocese: youth. As I got started, I surprised myself by how passionate I was on the subject. 8-10 pages, as well as suggestions on how to effect positive change, came both quickly and easily, but now I need to go back and make sure it's coherent. And I have to do this quickly, as I have invited several people, including my visiting friend, over tonight for a Scotch (I did this before I realized my paper was due! Go dumb me!) and thus, my evening is likely shot. So, that's where I am right now.
-R
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