The VIT has entered the second part of his first term. Things are busy. There are days and weeks that go by and we are just swimming along. It is not bad, it is not good, things just are.
Seminary is tricky bastard. The community is nice, the almost instantaneous grouping of like-minded people. The wanting to find people when you've been plucked up and moved. The wanting to create a home in a place where you know very few people. We've been treated well. Life is not difficult per say. Seminary life is one of sacrifice. Mainly sacrifice of time. Time with your spouse or partner, time as a family, time by yourself. Seminary envelops your entire life. There is always a thing, an event, a time that needs to be negotiated. It's easy to get trapped into what they call 'the bubble.' Only seminary/seminarians all the time. Variation is good. But here, it takes intention.
As I continue to navigate this road as the Mrs. VIT I must remember that I am still me. I am me first. Then I am his partner. Then I am their mother. I am about a million things but in order to be any of them I have to be me.
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