Work, work and work

I feel it's been a long time since I've written, but looking back I haven't this month. In my list of priorities at the moment, this is not high. I do miss the brain dump, though, as I find I do some of my best reflecting when I have to process it in writing.

So, what have I been up to? Well, mainly focusing on the dissertation, the first (and main) chapter of which I have committed to give to my dissertation supervisor on Friday. I'm really enjoying the write up and, in the main, it's coming on well and sort of writing itself. I thought I may not have done enough research, but looks like all the reading and examining of my primary evidence (the buildings themselves) is paying dividends.

The pastoral work I am doing at the Big Kirk is going well and my supervisor there is very pleased with it. It has been a mutually beneficial time, as I have gained a lot more experience, had a very supportive, sympathetic supervisor, and I have taken a bit of the work-load from her. In many ways it's a shame I hadn't thought to go there for probation, but I have no regrets and would not have had this opportunity.

Quarry Kirk. Well, it took me a while to work out if they actually liked me. Being dour Fifers, like myself, they are not necessarily the most expressive bunch! But they are warm and friendly once you get to know them. When they were told a couple of weeks ago my last Sunday is to be Easter Sunday they were genuinely sad, even when that's 3 months off.

And that's about it. Study and church work seem to be all I am doing at the moment. But Innovative Learning Week beckons, which I will be treating as a bit of a rest from study. There are no classes and, unlike almost every other ministry candidate at New College, I have chosen not to go to the Holy Land. Bliss. I know I need it, which is why I've been doing the 'big push' in terms of my uni work so I can have the week clear.

The end is nigh. Just wondering what path I will go down at the next crossroads in this ministry training path.