Something Understood

This is my third semester now, and so I feel like I can speak as an expert. Hitting this part of the semester is always rough. The initial excitement of the semester gives way to the horrid realization of the amount of work involved, which gives way to the stress of mid-term season, which then breaks through into "reading week". This gives us a week off from classes (but not from Field Ed, reading, or schoolwork) and acts as a little bit of a breather.

Then it's back to the grind, and we're still a month away from the end of the semester. I still have hundreds of pages of reading to do and several assignments. I'm done with preaching, though. I preached the last of my in-class sermons for Homiletics. I picked Trinity Sunday, which is a very, very difficult thing to preach about. I've been trying to put together a post on the topic, but I just can't sum it up. Just like the Trinity really. It's an important doctrine, really. Foundational to the whole of Christianity, in fact, but it isn't anything that can be said clearly enough, correctly enough, obviously enough. If you can't hammer a square shaped peg into a round hole, just try hammering a God-shaped God into a triangular hole. It's hard work. Thing is, I tend to take an apophatic and mystical approach to divinity. I think that God exists around the edges of comprehension, which means I have a bit of hard time trying to "explain" doctrine.

Anyway, I'm blowing off steam. C and I just watched The Shipping News, which was wonderful. It has Kevin Spacey and Judi Dench, which generally spells instant-OK for me, and it was a beautiful movie. I've been following the pitiful performance of England during the November rugby Internationals, and C & I have been talking and dreaming about the British Isles.

Anyway, I'm off to bed. Long day tomorrow. Drop me a line.