I'm amazed at how often I bump up against my own ignorance - looking up words in the dictionary, being over zealous in my writing schedule, finding books that I think will make my research obsolete before it even sees the light of day.
Writing a dissertation, like staying on a healthy routine, is difficult work. At times, the juice of the Spirit is flowing and everything is falling into place. At other times, everything is just falling.
I am emerging out of a period of falling. Having just spent two weeks on vacation on the whitest beach I've ever seen (Siesta Key, Florida) I now find myself back in my flow of the Spirit, reading articles on dramaturgy and beginning a book on homiletics by Jana Childers (Performing the Word: Preaching as Theatre).
I'm heading to Exeter on August 24 and was hoping to have 20,000 words done. I'm not sure that is at all possible or prudent at this point. I've creating a good writing/research schedule for myself and just hope to be able to stick with it. Work at church is picking up as we get closer to September and the kick-off of the new program year. So ... I'll just have to wait and see what happens. Thankfully, I'll be waiting upon the Lord (something about 'renewed strength' is floating around in my head - always a good thing).
So, I push on ... blissfully ignorant yet floating in grace (like I said, two weeks at the beach, sorry).
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