Moving into Limbo

I've been neglecting this blog as Keith and I pack up our apartment, again. We are leaving Monroe for Limbo for a couple of months. I promise to let you know what happens with our call process, as soon as I can (Call process: the means by which would-be seminary students become ordained pastors at a particular church somewhere). We are in process with a church, and it looks like there will be an eventual cesation to our wanderings, but not yet.

We are processing, in lots of ways, as it were. Right now, we are processing a year of life in Monroe, Louisiana, trying to pack our stuff, write our final sermons, and tie up any loose ends.

Is it possible to "tie up loose ends" from a year of life? I wonder about this. A year of relationship building. A year of sharing life stories, which are ongoing, which don't stop whenever we happen to leave this place. A year of helping to shape the life of this church community. These are ends that will really remain "loose." We don't know the end of any of our stories.

The main way we tie up loose ends is to say "thank you," I think. We can never say this enough, to each other, or, more importantly, to God. We have lots of thanks to give for our year in this place.