They love the journals up at the PSR. It's their answer to everything. So, in addition to a journal about what I read in the Bible for Bible class, I also need to do a journal about the Spiritual Practices we encounter and try in Spiritual Disciplines class.

Well, it's been awhile. The process of getting ready for school has been overwhelming, and now school has started. It is amazing, how renewed participation in the daily rhythm of the student--books and pens and desks and classrooms--has been like running a dredge through the waters of my psyche. Sediment long-settled has emerged in the form of nightmares every night.