I've been thinking this week about journaling and what this simple, little act can bring to my life. I work full-time at a small liberal arts college, I am in seminary part time, and am involved with women's bible study at church. My life seems full and in fact, I act like my life is too full - much to the neglect of my spiritual growth. One of the things that we have to do in seminary are these things called Field Education - basically they want us to be involved in a ministry, but in such a way that we think through ways in which this service can grow us at future Christian leaders. So this semester, and for the following two, I am going to continue to serve my church in the same way as always, except to put a little more thought into my spiritual growth, which is something that I usually neglect.
Part of this work also means that I need to have a mentor - someone who can help guide me in this journey. God has really blessed me already by providing CM as my mentor - I know that I am going to be challenged this year and am grateful that she is such a Godly woman.
One of the very first tasks she is asking me to do is to journal. I'm not that great at journaling, having picked it up and put it down quite a few times over the last decade. But because this is "coursework" and because I do want to discover the woman that God has created me to be, I am going to try to be more consistent.
Please accept this blog as my attempt to wrestle with what I believe. I am a Christian but I am FAR from perfect and FAR from consistently "getting things right". If you happen to stumble upon this blog and see how screwed up I really am, please know that I accept this and that I consider myself to be a work in progress. But also know that it is through life's messes that we get to see the wonderful hand of God touch our lives and transform it beyond our wildest imagination.
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