We are winding down our trip that I have decided to call " Dripping Through The Dirty South". I really forgot how humid it is down here. I have a small collection of thoughts that I may post if I look through them and deem them acceptable, because most of them were inspired while in a BBQ induced haze.
We are in Shreveport this weekend for a wedding and after that we are heading to Jackson, Ms to spend time with Justin and Charis and the rest of the Harding Street House. We are going to spend a couple of days enjoying each other, talking about community and just practice being the body of Christ. It makes me giddy inside.
While I was planning on getting some serious reading done this week, it didn't really happen (Balthasar was harder than I thought), but I did get to have some great conversations with people. I realize that I have been timid describing were I think I am going because I don't like typical ministry/church language and I haven't been as honest as I could be because I was trying to get around some terms. I guess this is just part of the time I am spending in seminary and becoming comfortable with it. Interpretation is the word that I have been looking for, not confrontation.
Yesterday I wandered around Lifeway, looking for what kind of systematic theology good Baptists read. I didn't find any Thomas Oden....But I am comfortable with that. Part of what I have read this week really dealt with the issue of Tradition and Evangelicism and how to handle it with out getting in a tiffy. This is all part of learning to explain things, and I think that is the biggest lesson I could learn this next year.
The next few days are my last slow ones, and then I am going to be REALLY busy. But I hope that I have learned some things during my time off about scheduling busy and scheduling slow. I am excited about what these next few months will be like for school, work, ministry and just life in general.
I will leave you with a geek link from lifehack.org about 10 ways to write a better research paper.