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I’m on the other side of the "little" wilderness experience. Of course I don’t know how my discernment/candidate process will shake out as I haven't received word of an appointment with the Bishop. I don’t foresee anything happening for the next few weeks in that regard. I guess I could take that as a bad sign but I won’t. It is what it is and will be what it will be. I will not try to politic my way through this process or try to “sell myself” to the Bishop and everyone around me. Frankly, I wouldn’t be very good at that. This has to be an honest process.

My next class has started with some preliminary reading from J.N.D. Kelly’s Early Christian Doctrines. I’ll miss the first “class” but will catch up with note from the instructor and reading. Most of my courses are “on-line” so it really is tough missing the time that I can spend face-to-face with the instructor. I hope to touch base with my classmates via email... see if I can get them to “discuss” with me some of the things that I’ll miss. This is the kind of reading I like. I picked up another book at a library book sale that I thought might complement Kelly’s, Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers by Christopher A. Hall. This is an IVP book. It looks like it hasn’t even been opened. Poor guy... he writes a book, someone buys it, it sits around for about a decade, clearly whoever bought this book just doesn’t get around to it, and I pick it up for 50 cents. The forward was good. Never skip reading the Forward to a book. You pick up so much about the author’s frame of reference from the forward.

Well, I’m guessing that the next couple of months should be telling for me. I think I’ll know by the end of May if I’ll be overlooked or be accepted as a postulant for the Diaconate. 

So, I guess, I am lingering still in the little wilderness. 

the wilderness is beautiful