I Need to Update More Than Once a Month

okay... so, i need to get better about updating my blog... i feel like when there is a lot to update, i don't want to write too much about anything specific. we'll see...

where to begin? things have been going well. i only have two more weeks in this quarter, which seems ridiculous. but things have been going well, my hebrew class especially. hebrew and church history are both very fun, just a lot of work goes into them. but i'm excited to have the quarter break coming up soon.

i'm working at panera in mansfield. been working there for just over two months now. the work is alright. working there is fulfilling it's purpose of paying bills and what not. but there are times when i miss doing campus ministry full-time instead... especially on the nights that i end up washing dishes for six hours... blah.

wedding planning is coming along. the wedding is just under 7 months away, which seems really crazy. i have a feeling that after the new year, time is going to go by very quickly. jenn is actually going to be coming out to ashland after her semester is over so that we can go apartment hunting. hopefully we'll get to live in the same apartment complex that mallory eggebrecht lives in. i'm so glad mal lives in ashland now.

as far as future plans go, seminary has had an interesting affect on my life and my view of my calling. when i originally came to ashland, i planned on going through my program and then head off to start my pastoral career, and if jenn has her way it will be somewhere down south. but as i have been here, i feel like God has been showing me more and more interesting things about myself, my gifts, and my passions. i have always been a natural student. getting good grades in school was never that difficult for me, especially as a tcom student at bgsu, and i generally in the past have been able to pick stuff up pretty well. but my studies here at ashland theological seminary have been very different. for the first time in my life, i'm investing my time and studies into things that i'm actually interested in and things that i care about and have passions for. and as i have been noticing my gifts in study and passions in these areas, coupled with my passion for teaching, which God has placed even heavier on my heart as of late, i have been having different thoughts about where God may be calling me and what my ministry will look like long term. all that to say, i am in the process of talking with some of my professors to gather information on what it would look like for me to go for my phd. and to teach at the college/seminary level. so, if you could keep that in your prayers, that would be great.

i'll get better about updating my blog. i promise.

yomtov!