I am working today on catching up on one of the many assignments I have outstanding for graduate school. It has not been easy to keep up with the work, but I continue to be blown away by the experience of being part of this program. Each time we have a class, I think it cannot possibly get any better, but it just keeps building on the experience and knitting together knowledge, wisdome, experience, character, and more in such profound ways.
The class for which I am working on the paper currently was a four-day intensive on Spiritual Formation taught by Peter Fitch. He is from St. Stephens University, which is the university through which our accredidation comes. It was incredible. There is so much more that I could (and want to say about it), but for the moment, I am going to leave a quote (even that is hard to choose just one!) from one of our reading assignments ("On Loving God" by Bernanrd of Clairvaux):
“He who trusts in the Lord not because he is good to him but simply because he is good truly loves God for God’s sake and not for his own…There are some who praise God for his power, some who praise him for his goodness to them, and some who praise him simply because he is good. The first is a slave, fearful on his own account. The second is mercenary, and desires profit for himself. The third is a son who honors his father.”
Oh, to live simply as a daughter who honors her Father!
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