Almost 3 Months In

Well, I'm nearly 3 months into my internship. I'm feeling the burn now - probably because I get so frustrated with sermon and confirmation help material that it ends up being easier to design lessons on my own. I'm sure that I'm not doing as good a job as other folks would do, but I do enjoy getting my hands dirty while preparing material. I'm pretty sure that this is also helping me work through my seminary education now before I forget some of its finer points. Still, all that time spent trying to prepare for lessons, studies, or sermons can be draining.

I'm learning a lot, though concrete applications for this knowledge seems a bit absent at present. Getting used to being out of the rhythms of the academy has been disconcerting, but knowing that I'm actually being employed full time has its own way of keeping me going.

Time spent with seminary friends of late has been nice. Last week, I saw some friends at Luther on my way to a conference at which I saw Steve Paulson. The previous two weeks I got to see the interns around me and catch up with them - It's fun since several of us went to the same college.

Now, however, I'm looking forward to weeks without long distances to travel to conferences or cluster meetings and actually having five days to get work done.