tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post1411490508444927491..comments2023-12-05T04:20:37.460-06:00Comments on The Journey: A different seminary pathLizard Eaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04506056116023122414noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post-61819646363294587052008-12-12T09:03:00.000-06:002008-12-12T09:03:00.000-06:00I think I would take the more difficult path over ...I think I would take the more difficult path over the cloistered one any day. So much to learn. So much to share. Can you in your wild imaginings grasp the kind of ministry you will ascend to? As a UU/RS gal, I'm not one to quote bible verses. But doesn't Corinthians say, somewhere in the first chapters, that we go through difficulties that we might comfort those others who follow after us. You are going to have one awesome ministry and a great compassion to bring to others. It's all about the journey.RevCindihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03278247661878094394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post-76599589155607468662008-12-11T20:54:00.000-06:002008-12-11T20:54:00.000-06:00I plan to be there next January, so hopefully will...I plan to be there next January, so hopefully will see you then! (2010).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15288925493907687573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post-60834186387571803422008-12-11T20:45:00.000-06:002008-12-11T20:45:00.000-06:00Ogre and Kelly -- we may literally journey togethe...Ogre and Kelly -- we may literally journey together. I plan on graduating from my local seminary, but hope to do some January intensives at ML.Lizard Eaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04506056116023122414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post-5631438770797894602008-12-11T20:13:00.000-06:002008-12-11T20:13:00.000-06:00There is no doubt that you're on the right path, a...There is no doubt that you're on the right path, and Little Warrior has taught you so much you will need to know, that you wont' learn in a classroom. Like Ogre, I am headed to ML, because my family does NOT want to move, and I feel an aching need to be within a UU community, although I'll take classes locally as well.<BR/><BR/>So we all journey together!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15288925493907687573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post-73902815703536495252008-12-11T19:30:00.000-06:002008-12-11T19:30:00.000-06:00Your path to ministry is an inspiration to us all,...Your path to ministry is an inspiration to us all, and each challenge you meet and surmount simply prepares you for the new challenges you will encounter each day. Believe me, there are challenges to preparing for ministry in the "cloistered" environment of seminary at the tender age of 21 as well... especially in a "graying' denomination where the median age is still in the high fifties. Blessings and best wishes to you and your entire family.<BR/><BR/>TimThe Eclectic Clerichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12692982208236857534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post-7027351577329778072008-12-11T17:44:00.000-06:002008-12-11T17:44:00.000-06:00We're all unique (save yes, you lot at the back sc...We're all unique (save yes, you lot at the back screaming "I'm not!").<BR/><BR/>I didn't hear a call. Did not. Maybe it was there. Certainly damned near everyone else seemed to think it was obvious. But I didn't.<BR/><BR/>And then I did. I thus could not have gone way back in my 20s when I wasn't married and didn't have kids. Or even when I was married and didn't have kids--we certainly dawdled on having kids long enough that I could have gone, gotten an M.Div., done an internship and been looking at final fellowship by the time we started having kids.<BR/><BR/>But... no call. Never crossed my mind.<BR/><BR/>What is it... oh yeah, "... when the Spirit says Do!" Well...<BR/><BR/>So utterly different situation, place, time of life. Not a seminary here that would touch me--or I it. A Catholic seminary would be liberal by comparison, hands down.<BR/><BR/>So it was Meadville Lombard's modified residency program, or moving to go to school (yeah, like that was in the cards; I'd already gotten a "You WHAT?" at mentioning that I was, um, thinking about ministry. Moving the whole family so I could go to school, with all the economic and job disruptions? Let's don't be silly), or not do this.<BR/><BR/>The universe--or whatever it was out there wielding that 2x4--had already persuaded me that "not" might entail some unwanted experiences.<BR/><BR/>There's no cloister this way (though I'm not sure how much there is anyway), at least not 11 months of the year. Advantages, and disadvantages both.<BR/><BR/>Not full time either. The finance it yourself approach is, um, <I>interesting</I>. Oh. Yeah. <BR/><BR/>But I'm glad of the way it's working, knowing that there are undoubtedly others that might have (including the ones that start a year or so from now... after a painful divorce, in some unwanted alternative universe). And I'm glad of the diversity of experiences and paths that we come wandering up. Each with their own unique pitfalls and traps....ogrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910505029382522110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post-22400090981664859382008-12-11T17:43:00.000-06:002008-12-11T17:43:00.000-06:00I would say you have been through (and are still i...I would say you have been through (and are still in) a discernment process like very few others have undertaken. And you're still on the path---that is definitely a sign. You'll get there, I'm sure of it.Lilylouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02328027965155428624noreply@blogger.com