The past few weeks have been fun, challenging and rewarding.
In case you don’t already know, I traveled to Chicago for three weeks of classes as I work on my Doctor of Ministry in Preaching degree. This program is a joint program of several seminaries in the Chicago area and brings together some of the best known preachers and professors for a unique program.
This marks the beginning of my second year and, so I have friends and colleagues who greeted me (and I, them). It is a homecoming, in a way, and I feel blessed by the people who surrounded me over the past few weeks.
It’s funny, I’ve spent a few weeks with these other preachers and, yet, I feel very close to some of these new friends of mine. I feel as though they know my life and yet they have only known me, in-person, for the length of six weeks, collectively.
Perhaps knowing a person is not about the length of time we have known them, but the depths we have gone with them? Is it possible for two people who have been friends for just a few months to be closer than a brother and sister who have known one another for forty years? Yes, I think it is possible that as human beings the best relationships we will experience are about depth, not length.
I hope to find opportunities to pursue deep and meaningful relationships and I hope you will join me in this journey.
