Reality

Last week was tougher than I expected. We're really digging in to the books and I've had trouble keeping up with my readings. My whole class pretty much bombed a quiz in Church History yesterday. The best we can say is that it was the first quiz and now we know what the professor expects... the other classes are going ok, but Greek is getting much tougher, I'm really having to apply myself to just keep up. The trouble is that after studying much of the day you want to have a break, but then you fall behind somewhere else. I just haven't learned the correct pacing yet.

I'm also trying to help out more with the kids. Marti misses working and all of the social outlets she had in Jacksonville. The spouses of the seminarians get together a lot, but she was used to working 5 days a week and spending lots of time around other adults. Now she's mostly at home with Joshua from 8am until 3pm M-F.

I have a lot of middler and senior friends and it seems like their lives aren't quite in balance either. I hope that we get credit for trying!

Many thanks to all of you who have worked so hard to stay in touch with us. I really appreciate your encouragement and support, it means more than you know.

God bless,

Jon