"My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!"
- Horatio G. Spafford, It Is Well With My Soul
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
*sigh*
this semester of seminary is ALMOST over. all my papers (doctrine of adoption? check. egalitarianism? check. book reviews/interactions? check.) and projects are in and i'm down to the three finals. by thursday night next week, it's another semester of being in the books... in the books.
i won't be taking any classes this summer. the scheduling and funding are tough to coordinate! in the fall i'll take principles of teaching, elementary greek I and the christian home. i'll also start my required semesters of chapel.
i heard that my bff randy is halfway through his seminary education. kudos, randall. i'm gonna be a while longer.
it's been good so far, it's just slow going when i think about graduating! sometimes i fear that i'm just making the grades and not really soaking in the education. but i know i'm learning and getting to share what i learn with the people i get to minister to.
anyway, here's to finishing strong, all you students out there!
I actually pushed myself hard to make an A in my Revelation class this semester. I thought it would be the same where I was looking for the grade more than the knowledge, but I found when I actually spent 10 hours studying I would pick up on things in the notes I didn't remember the teacher saying. And I was able to figure out that the movie Sherlock Holmes is built on the Revelation story. It's probably different for you, but my two cents is that when I pushed myself for the grade I actually gained more of the knowledge.