I just finished my coursework for the class I've been taking this semester, Acts and Pauline Epistles. So forgive me for not posting yesterday; I was frantically writing a twenty-page paper on Galatians and taking a truly humbling final exam (do you know who the heck Jason was?)
I now have a week off to rest my addled brain, soothe my bruised ego, and somehow read 1,276 pages on eschatology.
Yikes.
You know, with all the insane amount of reading, writing, and general fact-absorption, you would think seminary would have taught me a bunch of what Texans call "book-learnin'." I hope I will look back eventually and say, "gosh, I sure learned a lot from those textbooks, let me recite some of my amazing knowledge for you." But honestly, what I have learned most about in seminary is my own character (the good, the bad, the ugly, and the depressingly-bad-at-remembering-dates) and, much more importantly, the character of God. I have been amazed and humbled beyond anything I ever could have imagined, over and over again.
And I guess that makes all the fire-hose-lecture-enduring, last-minute-endless-paper-writing, and sweating-blood-over-Greek-paradigms worth it.
Does it?
Yes.
Definitely.
I think.
=)
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