Resting Up

My little trip out to Mom's meant that I didn't get to write the two papers I need to complete to finish my seminary spring courses. So today, after church and chime choir practice, I head to my office, knowing that if I go home, I will end up napping. I settle in and get to work. First, the shorter paper, a happy meditation appropriate for a wedding.

I select a Scripture passage about a three fold cord not being easily broken, and weave a little object lessons about how each cord is different, bringing different strengths and weaknesses into the equation, but how the third cord ties them together, intertwined so that they work together. Probably not the best wedding sermon ever created, but I sort of like it. Besides, I am still a bit burnt from my own marriage to be very encouraging to others taking that plunge. Good thing I am not going into full time pastorate duties!

And too bad I didn't have the kind of premarital counseling they offer these days. That might have been enough to keep me from getting married! Well, proof and print and on to the next paper. This one is more daunting. I have been picking away at this 10 pager for weeks, unable to find the right approach. After about an hour, I get at least a skeleton of what I want to include and in what order, then spend the next two hours fleshing it in.

It still isn't exactly right, but I am tired. I throw in the towel with Dad's favorite saying - it's good enough. Not totally reflective of everything going on in my head and heart, but it will do. I email it to the professor with my apologies. But it was so much more important to visit Mom than to spend the weekend writing.

At long last, at 6pm, I am done. I head home, knowing I will not stay up for long. Monday is a full day and it starts early since I open the library at 7:30 am. What makes me happy though is that I have been able to do all the things I wanted to do this weekend without collapsing. I am truly getting stronger and more able to take up life. This is good. This is very encouraging.