And... I'm done.

Whew. Where did the time go? Of course, I realize I've not been a very regular poster here to begin with, and I'm sure my "readers" (crickets are chirping in the silence) have barely noticed my absence, but it's still a little embarrassing to have had so little to say for six weeks. Well, perhaps not so much having so little to say as not having time to process the whirlwind of my life in order to comment on it.

So the big news is that I graduated from seminary! Woohoo! (And there was much rejoicing... yay...) Yes, friends, I now have a Master of Divinity from Iliff School of Theology. And since I'm not currently pursuing parish ministry (not as a pastor, anyway), let's hear it for being overeducated and underemployed!! It could definitely be worse, as I'll be employed half-time for the next six months with the possibility of going full-time after that if we get lots of grant money, and I'm working on convincing myself it'll be good for me not to be killing myself every week just to keep my head above water. I'm getting close to believing it.

But of course the lease on the house I've been renting a house with 3 other (wonderful) women is up June 30, so I need to get packing pretty soon. I hate moving. At least this year the trauma of the move is mitigated by the fact that moving across town is far less traumatic than it would be to move across country right now. I have come to value stability and familiarity this past year in ways that would have been very surprising to me a couple years ago. Yes, God is still doing new things, and I am grateful and excited to be part of some of them - but there is so much to be said for knowing you will be in one place long enough to paint the walls or plant perennial flowers or draw up a year-long project budget (at work) without just assuming that someone else will see it come to fruition.

Well, those are a couple of my thoughts on transition at the moment. This does mean I'll be in Denver for at least another year (barring unforeseen events and circumstances, which I'm sure will come up anyway, but I can hope, can't I?), so if you know me and have been putting off that trip out to the Rocky Mountains, COME VISIT ME NOW!!