This week has flown by. Along the way, a few people had to leave us due to life intervening. Illness and funerals and surgeries and other not so pleasant happenings. But now, the brain tingling work has been accomplished, the conversations have happened, the exploration of our topic concluded. All that remains is for us to assimilate all the materials and come up with a paper about where we are in the process. Right.
And to say another farewell to those who do not live in the Rochester area. Once again, the departing board cars, motorcycles, planes and other modes of transport and head back to their home digs. They take with them a piece of Rochester and of the seminary, but also a bit of each other. We are bound together by the experience we have shared, by the way our discussions will affect the work we do and the manner in which we minister.
It is not so much a sad good bye this time as an expectant one. We will meet again in January, having had time to put into practice what we are learning. Will it work? Will we find the going easier or more challenging? Will it make a difference to the people we minister to? We will find out in our next intersection of course and communion, Lord willing.
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