I should be happy, I really should. I feel like I should be out celebrating because a huge load has come off my back. I FINALLY sent in my assignment papers for the ELCA assignment process next February. However, I was nervous sending out my papers. What if I could of said something differently? Was three times enough to go through the spell check? Did I leave a very important piece out of my profile that might turn a church around? Too many questions for me to worry about. I need to lift everything up in God’s hands because that’s where it is now.

Admist the craziness of life I am having a pretty good week. The end of last week I had a lockin at church- followed by the Souderton Christmas Parade, I was kinda disappointed by Santa Clause. There are more and more Santa’s around that have real long white beards and my son knew that this was a fake and he is only three. He just asked what was on Santa’s face, I just said that Santa was cold and he seemed okay with that.
This followed with lunch and the much needed nap.

Sunday was church and then a trip to the King of Prussa mall to the Apple Store. Currently on my labtop (where I am typing from) I am missing the F2 and F5 key, the space bar, the left and down arrows. This is caused by the aforementioned son. When he was smaller he would sneak onto the computer and pull off keys. They told me it would be $150.00 to get it fixed. The computer is functional and I have adapted this long it would not matter for alittle while longer. Like our cars I am hoping this computer will make it through the rest of seminary.

I don’t think I would ever go after a PhD. I was intimitated enough by coming to seminary for my masters degree. Plus the language would keep me out of most programs. However if I do get my Dmin down the road. I would love to get into the idea of Theodicy and Psychology. I just had to write a paper along those lines and I think it is very interesting. How does evil come into the world? When we talk about evil and an individual – what is the psychological make up of those individuals? And how does God fit into all of this. I would consider doing a Dmin down the road with perhaps a focus on becoming a CPE supervisor. I think I could tie those two things in together and that would be something that interests me. But right now I am thinking that would happen 5-10 years from now.

For the current time I am goign to be in the draft and I have indicated on my forms that I am in conversation with Evangelical Outreach and Congregational Mission. Basically I was told by my advisor that I should consider being a mission developer or a Church Planter. I would not mind doing something like this, acutally I think it could be fun and that I could do a good job at it. This Friday I have a prescreening for the position.

Well I should get back and watch my Patriots. Right now they are not doing so good. GO PATS!!!!!