(Movie announcer voice with fantasy movie music in the background) "The journey of one young adult through seminary bound towards a world called... Academia. A world full of books and papers, where imagination brings forth power..."
Haha, right. I wish it were that glorious! I found out that my destination was this world called Academia. A world of facts and scientific reasoning (although applied mainly in my path to literature).
Why bring this path up?
Because recently, I have been struggling to handle the midterm assignment in my Pastoral Care class. I don't deal well with not having concrete answers, or a real way of deducting these concrete answers. Pastoral Care is a "touchy feel-y class" according to my friend Suzanne.
In the midterm we are doing a case study on a "grey area." You must create a cultural context, then figure out the developmental issues, the psychological issues, the theological issues, write a follow-up session, write a prayer (yikes!), and pick a psalm to help the person (which is a struggle for someone who does not like to take scripture out of context-says the academic).
I am not called into Pastoral ministry and I can't stand this class because the professor expects that we all are (mind you the name is Pastoral Care, but it is a requirement for all MDiv students and MTS's have to take 2 courses in "touchy feel-y"). But seriously, how are you expected to get a grade on something that is situational?? Depending on who you are and who you are working with and the situation they are in, the way to handle the situation will be different!
One of the admissions counselors told me when I was talking about Pastoral Care that I will probably get an A- with the note:"too intellectual" because I that is what I have always been taught. He said it would be the worst grade I will get in seminary... and part of me hopes he is right, because if I get a good grade on this it will be a miracle (yes, the kind that Jesus did).
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