Black Gardenia
I beat myself up about not doing enough sometimes. But you know what? I do more than almost anyone I know. The majority of my life has been spent working AT LEAST 40 hours a week, while going to school full time and having significant ministry commitments. Well anyway, I've already done homework for like 4-5 hours today, probably a little more, and now am beating myself up that I am having a hard time staying motivated. But, it's all gotta be done tomorrow, so this will be over soon.
I went to tea today. Yes, you heard me. This lady who lead my small group is graduating and had a bunch of people out for tea. It was interesting. I knew no one except her. We all had tea (duh) then had small appetizer then scones and biscuits and then dessert. Yummy.
Anyway, I was a little nervous mainly cause I knew that one of the professors, Dorian, was going to be there. I aspire to be her when I grow up, and that's not a joke. I don't really know her though, so I guess I can't aspire too much. Anyway -- she was one of the first women in the mid 80's to graduate with a ThM degree (before only men were allowed). She was an editor during this time and then starting editing for the school's journal. One of my many goals is to get into editing for theological journals. Anyway ... eventually they asked her to become a professor, and she accepted. She's been teaching Hebrew for at least 10 years now I think. Lately, I've been thinking much, much more about teaching also being a viable option for my life. Everyone says she is the best Hebrew teacher at the school. Now if you know anything about my school you would know that we have the very best biblical language teachers in the world. (I guess it's mostly focused on Greek, but I can't see how the Hebrew teaching would be worse, if that is the standard already in place). Anyway, among all these things she was also single for the majority of this time. She is married now and we all use that as a justification as to how some boy will want to marry us sometime. Here's how the conversation goes amongst us single female ThMers (or the ones I know at least).
"No one will marry a girl who knows more about the bible than they do and can translate the whole thing"
"Well, someone married Dorian"
"Hmmm, this is true. But he'll have to have a doctorate or something"
"Dorian's husband doesn't"
"Hmmm, this is true."
Anyway, she was very nice and really seemed interested in getting to know me more. I told her I was planning on taking her for Hebrew and she said if I wanted to get started early to let her know and she'd go over a few things with me. And she really would.
Before this she was talking to her friends about how she wishes she could do more with students and how she's been having a hard time these past few weeks cause she thinks she's been too hard on her students and/or not teaching them the best she can.
Anyway ... anyone want to write an 8 page paper on william carey? Oh yeah, well, me neither.
I went to tea today. Yes, you heard me. This lady who lead my small group is graduating and had a bunch of people out for tea. It was interesting. I knew no one except her. We all had tea (duh) then had small appetizer then scones and biscuits and then dessert. Yummy.
Anyway, I was a little nervous mainly cause I knew that one of the professors, Dorian, was going to be there. I aspire to be her when I grow up, and that's not a joke. I don't really know her though, so I guess I can't aspire too much. Anyway -- she was one of the first women in the mid 80's to graduate with a ThM degree (before only men were allowed). She was an editor during this time and then starting editing for the school's journal. One of my many goals is to get into editing for theological journals. Anyway ... eventually they asked her to become a professor, and she accepted. She's been teaching Hebrew for at least 10 years now I think. Lately, I've been thinking much, much more about teaching also being a viable option for my life. Everyone says she is the best Hebrew teacher at the school. Now if you know anything about my school you would know that we have the very best biblical language teachers in the world. (I guess it's mostly focused on Greek, but I can't see how the Hebrew teaching would be worse, if that is the standard already in place). Anyway, among all these things she was also single for the majority of this time. She is married now and we all use that as a justification as to how some boy will want to marry us sometime. Here's how the conversation goes amongst us single female ThMers (or the ones I know at least).
"No one will marry a girl who knows more about the bible than they do and can translate the whole thing"
"Well, someone married Dorian"
"Hmmm, this is true. But he'll have to have a doctorate or something"
"Dorian's husband doesn't"
"Hmmm, this is true."
Anyway, she was very nice and really seemed interested in getting to know me more. I told her I was planning on taking her for Hebrew and she said if I wanted to get started early to let her know and she'd go over a few things with me. And she really would.
Before this she was talking to her friends about how she wishes she could do more with students and how she's been having a hard time these past few weeks cause she thinks she's been too hard on her students and/or not teaching them the best she can.
Anyway ... anyone want to write an 8 page paper on william carey? Oh yeah, well, me neither.
posted by Bethany at 7:30 PM
2 Comments:
Thanks for getting Kara to blog with us! And thanks for letting her use your computer. You're a good kid, GOOD KID!
-kimwisegamgee
I'd have absolutely no problem with a gal that knows more about the bible then I do. I think that people who think that knowledge is the only thing that makes the Bible powerful is a little naive. I wish I could translate the bible into other languages and could recite it all.. but I can't, I've read it from cover to cover. As a MAN - I don't think we need to be threatened by strong Christian women, or women that have alot of knowledge..
I find Christian men tend to have GYMES syndrome.. and look for this one type of woman.. because they are afraid to grow out of their own comfort zone..
- Nate
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