Re-Centering

Every so often a person has a new experience that literally re-orients the pathways in their brain. These experiences can be disconcerting, but they provide valuable perspective and actually make the brain grow. Learning Greek felt like that to me - I swore I could feel the new crevices forming.

Last week I returned from a trip to Peru and that's how it felt: new food, cultures, schedules, languages, and the tidal wave of imagination that washed over me at Machu Picchu (and it wasn't just the abnormally heavy rains . . .). So much that was new, so much to learn, where to put it all??!!

Seminary is full of re-centering experiences. It requires a way to corral the flood of information. It requires new categories, new patterns, new ways to arrange ideas. In many ways the grid, or schema one creates for all of this is as critical as the information itself. Be careful and deliberate about the process. Use care and caution, love and wisdom as you select, integrate, and organize the new information and experiences.