Prepare Ye

So, today was the announcement of the internship matches for the Middler class here at The LTS. I'm trying to think what the best Biblical verse is to sum up the feelings. The choices are: a) "And all the people went up following him, playing on pipes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth quaked at their noise."1 Kings 1:40 b) "Throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”Matthew 22:13 c) "A dispute also arose among them." Luke 22:24 The answer is somewhere in the middle. Most people were happy with where they have been assigned, but a few were not. I'm in a group in the middle. I did not get one of my preferred sites, but am happy with where I'm going. I wanted to go to an urban site because that is where I feel called. Instead, I'm going to a detached parish (my supervisor is a pastor at a near-by church, and I will work under his leadership primarily at another church who is currently without...

I just finished reading a book I would like to recommend to everyone. It is called The Shack and is written by William P. Young. It is the story of a man whose daughter is abducted and taken to a cabin in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, the man receives what appears to be an invitation from God, inviting him to the shack for a weekend. I raced through the book in a single setting, because I could not put it down. The 250 pages just flew by. It is very well written, and quite touching and thought provoking. www.theshackbook.com