school daze...

well, this is the first day of the second year...today things seemed a bit like the way we left it in july...there were a few surprises with weddings and general happenings of life that somehow overtake us when we have time to act outside of the daily routine of studying...



georgia was kind enough to snap our "first day of school" shot this morning...i like these two kids...they make me happy...joseph is leaving for wisconsin this weekend to do the ironman...not that he would tell anyone, but this past weekend he placed in the top 10 out of a gazzilion people...warm up he called it...whatever...

i was reminded today of the delicate nature we seminarians like to call our "vocation"...there are risks every turn we take and it seems that a snafu awaits us around the corner when we don't consider what might happen in either absolute...the 2X4 smacked me good today when the subject being considered was our words about God...what do we say? really? it's a risk to say and claim too much, but yet the risk of not speaking is too great...oh the humility i must learn...

dhawn pulled out the zen tea bag, of course, and the words on the wrapper said: "where there is mastery, there is no mystery..." is there truly contentedness in mystery?