Something Understood

I'm battling a terrible cold at the moment. It keeps wanting to settle into my ear, which is never a good sign, since ear infections are reason for a visit to the doctor.

I'm taking the cold-medicine time to do some planning for next September's Episcopal Seminarian Leadership Conference. I posted about going to the 2006 conference which was at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest. We're hosting it this coming autumn at CDSP, and we're trying to bootstrap the planning. We're suffering from a typical grad-school problem, though: anything that isn't required for a class gets little attention. We're pulled in lots of directions here. Three years seems like it would be enough time to get it all in, to work on the professional development and the spiritual maturation, but there's just so much. I expect that when I leave here it'll feel like I still have thousands of things I wished I'd explored.

But in other news, I've just found out that I'll be leaving here a year later than originally expected. I'm enrolled in the M. Div. program currently, which is the standard professional degree for ministry. I have just been accepted to the M. A. program in Liturgical Studies. At the GTU, one can take both degrees concurrently, which means two degrees in four years of study. This will greatly expand the possibilities for the future.

And speaking of conferences, I've been chosen to attend the Preaching Excellence Program. This is a week-long conference in preaching and homiletics offered by the Episcopal Preaching Foundation. It'll be in June at Villanova University near Philadelphia.