School

It's about all I think about right now. It seems to be all I do right now (although there's also work, Bible study, church, Sunday School, bits of socializing....). Sometimes I dream about it (very strange dreams about commentaries).

At the end of October I will be done 1/2 of the summer classes and 6/15 of the independent study classes (did I mention I passed last winter's classes? I finally got the final marks). The current classes (Creation and Covenant and Prophets and Prophecy in Context) are said by those who have completed the program to be the toughest with the most work. I believe it. I also take comfort in knowing that when I'm finished them, the rest should be less stressful!

The thing is, except for some of the reading, I'm enjoying all of it. I don't understand all of it, of course; in fact, in Dr. Wong's "minor research project" of 206 questions on the prophets, I tend to look at the questions and think "I have no idea!" Then I research and learn stuff and have fun...but there isn't time to learn and understand all of it (nor does he intend us to; it's just to get an overview; later we will write a full paper on one of the questions). I do know some of the arguments used to defend different views of different passages, and in some cases I know which ones I think are correct.

So....back to work. I'll try to check in once in a while, but until this research project is finished, I'm doing so much writing already that I don't always want to write in my spare time (such as it is).