Beginnings

Beginnings are hard.  When you’re planning the beginning, it seems exciting and you might even be ready for a change.  But once that beginning starts, the excitement wears off and you realize just how much work beginning again takes.  While I wouldn’t say it’s hit us like a ton of bricks, it has hit us more like pebbles falling out of the bed of the truck in front of you as you drive (I hate it when people don’t tie down whatever they have in the bed of their trucks and leave dents in your car…but I digress).  It’s really been a progression of events that makes us realize just how much work it is to start again and just how much energy we lack for it all.  But God has been good – he’s been making it “easy” on us.  While there are a lot of things to share, I’ll save most of it for our next and last newsletter.  I just want to share one thing with you today since this is the whole reason we moved to Charlotte.  Thadd begins his first Seminary course on May 10.  The course is New Testament Survey and he has been reading a lot for the class.  The class will take place from 9am – 4p Mon-Friday of next week and then he has 2 months to complete the rest of the course work.  He will also be taking a class called Spiritual Formation that meets over three weekends this summer and again, most of the class work happens at home.  But really, the thing that is most exciting for me as I watch my husband flip pages in his book and type away on his computer, is I’m watching the realization of a dream unfold.  From before I knew Thadd, he wanted to go to Seminary.  While we may have tried to bury it for a few years, it always resurfaced and now it’s here.  This beginning is exciting because knowing more about Christ, the WORD of God, and who we are in relation is just so exciting.  I’m excited to see what things we both learn during this process.  And most of all, I’m excited that we’re taking this journey together.  I get all the benefits of Seminary without having to sit in class and read all the books!

So anyway, please pray for this new beginning.  God will use Thadd in great ways and we are asking him to do just that.

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