Well, it's clearly been a while since I've posted last. Been going to class, trying to eat healthier and exercise more, and actually being somewhat prepared for school, which is kind of bizarre. Me doing reading is probably just compensating for not having done as much on my thesis as I should (since the whole thing's supposed to be ready to give to my advisor on March 1, and let's just say he'd get about 30 pages of random thoughts rather than 60 pages of sustained argument at the moment).
In other news, I got to vote for the first time at the Special Session of the Annual Conference, so that was kind of cool. I was glad that we shrunk the number of districts, since that seems like that'll be a good thing. It's been interesting to see things changing in the conference, and I'm sure that there'll be more changes as things progress. It was kind of funny when people kept getting up and asking about the composition of the "transition team" with questions like "do we have any young people?" "do we have any local pastors?" "do we have any ethnic people?" (to which I responded "I believe everybody up there has an ethnicity, even if it is mainly white). One of my ministerial role models proposed standing up and saying "do we have any gay people?" I would have paid good money to see the look on everyone's face if he'd done that.
I'm working on a letter to my D.S. to tell him about what sort of church I might like and how I'd describe myself as a future minister. It's kind of bizarre, since most of the time I have no clue what I'd like to do or where I'd be most called. I guess God'll be answering those kinds of questions in the coming months. I'm sure it'll be interesting.
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