Homework

Sorry to have missed a couple of days. OK, this homework is kicking my tail. I think I am going to have to get less “perfect” on my papers. I do three and four revisions to get to the one that I want to submit. I might be over thinking them a little. They are however, putting a big push on writing skills. They don’t feel that the seminary is producing people with the writing skills on par with a graduate level theological school. I have always been complimented on my writing but it was not an academic type of writing, so I am really scrutinizing my papers. Probably too much, but all the Professors are talking about this so I am sure it is high on everyone’s priority list.


I have only had one class since Wednesday and yet things seem to fall into the void and fill the day up so that the checklist of homework and reading doesn’t get accomplished. The way our class schedule is set we pretty much need to have our homework for the week done by Monday morning. That is not a bad thing since I would prefer to have it done anyway. We just don’t really have time on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday morning to do any homework. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday are definitely the homework days. We have a class syllabus for each class so we know what is due and when so it all comes together. I had to skip a social outing with my field education church this afternoon to keep on the homework. We have a Clinical Pastoral Education application that we need to fill out. The answer to the second question was 10 pages long. Overall I ended up with 15 pages. It is due on the 8th of October so I am getting it together ahead of schedule which is just where I want to be on all of my work. This is the application for the 400 hours of clinical work. I am hopeful to get Tampa General Hospital. It is the closest to the house that I know of, plus I think it will be a great place for this. I anticipate this 400 hours to be a very emotion filled 10 weeks. However, I will come out the better for it. Better able to minister to people.

I understand we were doing much better on football picks today than last week. I have pretty much given up watching the games at this point. Timing is good, I don’t have a team of all the teams that I root for that is going to even be .500 this year. What good timing!

Jason and I are responsible for Chapel in the morning. First time wearing the collar. I am sure it will go fine. I pray that all is going well in your lives. Thanks for looking in on me and thanks for telling Debbie over the weekend at the Church garage sale that you keep up with me. It is great to know or all of the people riding along on the journey.

Something to think about; If we know WHO we are, do we know WHOSE we are? That is a big topic around here. Who we are and whose we are. It is important to know both.

Blessings, Steve