tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post111039275586198021..comments2023-11-20T10:17:40.928+00:00Comments on Good in Parts: Are you ready?Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171138485811816831noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post-1110403757699555562005-03-09T21:29:00.000+00:002005-03-09T21:29:00.000+00:00YES! I can relate to all you say, Kathryn, and hav...YES! I can relate to all you say, Kathryn, and have pre-residential weekend midnight e-mails this very week to prove it. I decided to do the OLM (partly parish-based and highly collaborative) training suspecting it would be frustrating for all the same reasons as the more traditional part time course - only worse because its idea of being non-academic is to set ridiculously tight word limits which make it impossible to explore ideas in any depth (and without a deadline or incentive, and with the juggling thing, somehow you just don't do it on your own). And my suspicions were right! But I thought, and am still hanging onto the thought one year in, that the discipline of this way of doing things would be better for me than more academic study - but it is as frustrating as I imagined. However, all through my selection process there was a mantra about being not doing, incarnational not functional ministry, and surely that is the point.... Being there, or here, is what matters most, and doing the best we can, but seeing ourselves as instruments in an orchestra put together and conducted by God. Easier said than done, as I cease displacement activity, feed my family and brood on two presentations for Saturday as yet untouched.<br />And talking of displacement, I should never have started this blogging business.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com