Four Years And Then What?
Friday, June 6th, 2008
For those of you who thought I had fallen off the end of the earth, I haven’t found the end of the earth yet. Uhmm…maybe the earth is round 
Today was my last day in class. While there is still research to do, papers to write and other such requirements, the bulk of my Master of Divinity degree is completed. It’s bitter sweet. I love the intellectual wrangling of academics. What I will miss most is the opportunity to squeeze as much out of my profs as possible. I have had the opportunity to study under some remarkable people who have challenged me deeply and encouraged me. I owe them all a debt of gratitude that tuition doesn’t even begin to pay.
My last class was on the Psalms. Dr. Eric Ortlund (see his blog – Scatterings) led us on a week long marathon of reading, considering and teaching on the Psalms. Perhaps in the near future I will comment on the Psalms further, but tonight my head hurts. For now suffice to say that I am increasingly convinced of the singularity of the Old and New Testaments. How impoverished our lives are when we read one with out the other. Yes it can be hard to make sense out of some passages. Certainly, some grate against our sensibilities. Yet when we consider the totality of redemption history, creation history really, there is a unified cry for shalom, peace and wholeness. Such is the Psalmist’s heart.