Thanksgiving

I echo Steve's exhaustion and need to slack...as we end CPE and celebrate that ending, I know we'll each have our new beginnings ... field ed...homiletics ... the "library circle" reconvening ... for me, we'll have a new addition here at home and I will try to integrate some of the good that I've learned this summer into myself as I embark a bit further on this journey with Christ ... below is the prayer I wrote to include in my final evaluation of my CPE unit ...

Thanks go out to Steve for this blog, but also for his pastoral work this summer with our class and the entering class as the de facto Main Man of the Move In Coordination! He stepped in where others feared to go (or were too lazy or disorganized!)...thanks go out to Steve!

Almighty God, you became incarnate as a human being and have lived, taught, preached, healed, suffered and died so that we might be redeemed and come into your saving embrace; you have called us to be subject to one another and to seek and serve you in all persons; support us as we do this essential ministry of healing, of presence, of caring, and of sustaining our sisters and brothers as they are sick, suffering, in despair, and as they approach the end of their lives; give us strength for the journey, allow us to be vulnerable and open with others, and allow us to feel your presence among us as we do your work of reconciliation in this broken world; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Savior and Redeemer. Amen.

back to slacking

now that i have a handle on just how big a project my end of unit evaluation will be, now that i've finalized the list of moves over the next week and a half, now that i'm exhausted, i think i'll take this time to slack on my posts. i hope to do it periodically over the next two weeks, but want to take the time to thank all those who contributed to this blog as well as those who read it. i gained a lot of perspective by reflecting (almost) daily about my experience, and i hope y'all did too.