Q & A

Some questions and comments we have heard lately:


“If we flunk you, can you stay another year?” (from members of our internship committees)
“Get ordained and come back!” (from LDR staff members)
“Aren’t you packed yet?” (from a friend in NC – you know who you are – almost two weeks ago!)
“It’s nice outside today. It’s only 88…” (this quite seriously from Ray, who hates hot weather – can you guess how hot it has been on other days recently?!?!)
“We miss you already!” (from many members of the congregation this last few weeks)
“How is the packing coming?” (from many people we have encountered this past week)

The answers (or retorts, depending on the situation) are something like this:

"No, we must return to school for our last year of studies."
"We’ll have to wait and see where God needs us to be next."
"NO, we haven’t even gotten our packing boxes out of the church attic yet."
"Yeh, at least it’s not over 95!"
"We will miss all of you, too!"

And finally:

"Well, we have really been busy with Red Cross disaster training courses, final internship evaluations, and other work to wrap up at the church and at LDR all week. We finally – this morning – retrieved our boxes from the attic at church.

AFTER worship and a farewell lunch tomorrow, we will finally begin actually packing boxes. Fortunately, we have been working on sorting out some things to donate to a local charity, cleaning out our desks at church, finishing up things in the frig, cleaning out the pantry, etc. I think what is left actually needs to be packed and loaded on the truck. We may just have to sort it all out at the other end of the move…"