Well I am sat in Starbucks having a coffee and making a mental list of everything I need to pack. Tomorrow after the APCM I am off to Easter School; a whole week secluded from the world to be with God and with other students. I'm looking forward with a combination of excitement and anxiety, to an exhausting mix of learning, worship, fellowship and hopefully fun. Given how tiring our weekend residentials are I suspect I will need to sleep for a week on my return!
As daunting as it seems I know that it is also a huge privilege to be able to take a week off work and spend quality time with God and with the others students who are also on this strange journey to ordination. It will be good too to get to know some of those students in the 2nd and 3rd year a little better. The year groups have different residential weekends so there are only a few occasions in the year when we all meet up but everyone attends Easter School together. Of those 2nd and 3rd years I have spoken to at seminars, the mere fact that they have survived their first year and have managed to walk the tightrope of study, church placement, work, family, life etc without plummeting to the ground is deeply reassuring!
I am also looking forward to spending more time with my small "&Co" group. It seems a long time since we were last together in February. Please think of us this week and pray for Anne, Irwin, Mark, Mary, Ness, and I - and especially for those 3rd year students as they prepare for their ordinations in just a few weeks time.
P.S. Found out yesterday I passed my second module - phew!
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