Clinical Pastoral Education is ON!

So.....it's been a while since I've written anything here, so I want to apologize to all my fans (that's you Lorice, Mom and Dad) and provide you with something to read.

This summer I'm doing what amounts to a chaplain internship at Genesis Medical Centers in Davenport. This is a program that mixes practical experience with spiritual care for patients, along with what amounts to class group time where we process various experiences and challenges like creating genograms of our faith development through our family's history. We are also spending time in something called didactic learning. These are times when chaplains teach us about things like crisis management, dealing with fetal demise, grief processing, and more! This program is keyed to shaping pastoral identity for its participants (me) and spiritual formation. It's also a super compressed 11 week course on pastoral care (something that you actually don't get much of in seminary classes).

It won't be long before CPE will be over and internship begins. That'll be nice since internship will only be about 45 minutes away. Davenport is an hour and ten minutes each way all summer!

Adam Barnhart and I are commuting together. That's fun since Adam likes to do things like:
1] track road kill in a notebook (only majority carcasses count, and you can only count the ones that are on the side of the road on which you are traveling)

2] play DJ using my iPod

3] talk about people he knows who are "sweet" people

So, life is interesting for me right now, though very busy. There's a new version of my web site up, check it out and let me know if you like the new design!