TTFN

Well, I have finished all my papers. My thesis is written, bound, and submitted. In less than an hour, I bid farewell to what has been more or less my home for the last four years. At least in the technical sense, I am no longer a seminarian as, come what may, I am no longer in the seminary. This is truly a happy moment. I am moving forward, as one priest recently commented, to the front lines. And yet, there is a bit of a knot in my stomach and a lump in my throat. It is an odd thing that, having spent the last decade preparing to leave the seminary, I now find that I am not so sure I want to. But, change is inevitable. So, as Tigger says, TTFN - Ta Ta For Now.