Life Update (it’s been a few months)

Well, it’s been a few months since my last post.  A little over two months to be exact.  I’m not sure why my posting is so sporatic, I guess I just don’t have the mind or the thoughts to post everyday.  But, I have this blog, so I will post whenever things come to my mind.

So anyway, my life lately.  Basically, it’s been pretty dull.  I’m taking seventeen hours, but it doesn’t seem that way at all.  I only actually have four classes in which I am in a classroom for the entire semester.  I’m taking a seminar which ends this month and I’m taking a preaching lab which doesn’t begin until April.  Then on the side there is my field ministry.  I’m also doing a directed study in Christian Worship.  To get off topic a bit, directed studies are sweet.  I met with Dr. Black at the beginning of the semester, we made out a schedule and then I only have to go back to him to turn things in.  There is also the negative side to it though, which is actually making myself do the work.  So those are the classes which make up my seventeen hours.  On top of that I had to go to FLAME and now I have to do extra work with Dr. Wood to bring it to college credit.  So I guess in terms of hours, that would make my load twenty hours.  So far it isn’t that bad though.  I haven’t struggled really to get work done, so if I just keep that up I’ll be fine.

I’ve had two slight problems with the way SWU does things in this past year.  The first of these has been chapel.  It seems that over this past year, I have dreaded going to all the chapels.  I can’t recall a single one that I was excited to attend except for Spiritual Emphasis.  Worship in chapel seems to have drastically gone down hill since my junior year.  I will admit that worship teams were rushed to be put together that year, but I still enjoyed chapels much more then.  And it’s not only the worship.  I really don’t even enjoy the speakers anymore.  I just feel that chapel has just dropped and I have contemplated just not going, since I’m graduating.  Another slight problem I have had with SWU recently is our “forced” accountability in the Religion Division.  I just don’t feel comfortable sharing things with a bunch of guys I don’t know.  I would much rather discuss private things with someone I know and trust.  It’s nothing against the guys in my accountability group, but to be honest, Monday mornings at 10:50 is the only time I ever see any of those guys.  I’m not in anyway downplaying accountability either, I meet weekly with an accountability partner, so I just don’t feel the need to meet with a group of guys that I don’t know.  And to be completely honest, I don’t share the things that are deep within me in the group anyway.

Well, on to more delightful things, my field ministry is going great.  If didn’t you read my last post, I’m doing an internship with Greg Edmonds at Graham Chapel Wesleyan Church.  I’ woring with the youth and playing with the praise team, as they make a transition towards a more modern style of worship.  Things with the youth group are going well.  I’ve taught twice now and I felt a little wary about each time, but was encouraged by some of the sponsors.  I also feel that I am struggling to connect with some of the kids, but I think that may be because they’re so attached to Greg and those who have been there for so long.  Things with worship are going well also.  They have tried this before and failed, but this time the congregation seems to be receiving it very well.  I’m also learning a lot through the experience.  I used to be a die hard modern worship only kind of guy, but I’m starting to see how backwards that is.  When we tell those who enjoy the more traditional style that it is too traditional, we are doing the same thing they do when they comment on our modern music.  I think that this experience has shown me that even though I enjoy and worship more comfortably to modern worship, there are others who worship and enjoy traditional music in the same way.  I just ask that everyone could keep praying that we keep an even balance, so that we are able to keep everyone happy.

Basically that’s what’s been going on lately.  I’m trying to sell software for RooApps so that I can buy a Macbook Pro.  I also have a sick nasty road trip planned for Spring Break.  Lance and I are heading out for 12 days and hitting up the Rockies, Yellowstone, Mt. Rushmore, Chicago, Indianapolis, then back to SWU.  It’s a little over 4,000 miles and it makes a big loop through fifteen states.  We had originally planned to just go to Yellowstone, but then realized that a trip to Yellowstone and back was going to be just as far.  You can bet there will be some pictures to put up when I get back.

And on a final note…  S. Carolina is gonna go to the dance this year.