Comments on: Make Sure You’re Supposed to Be Here, part three http://seminarysurvivalguide.com/2007/12/27/make-sure-youre-supposed-to-be-here-part-three/ practical wisdom to help seminary students avoid burnout and finish well Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:23:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dee http://seminarysurvivalguide.com/2007/12/27/make-sure-youre-supposed-to-be-here-part-three/comment-page-1/#comment-382 Dee Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:11:08 +0000 http://seminarysurvivalguide.com/2007/12/27/make-sure-youre-supposed-to-be-here-part-three/#comment-382 I am here at 3.54am on a friday morning and I am reading your articles and I am really impressed with the honesty and clarity of each one. I am a female seminary student 1st year 2nd semester, I am a single mother also of a 13 year old and a 22 year old, going through all kinds of craziness trying to stay sane. In one of my classes I had to write about my call to ministry and at times I doubt,because I look at myself and where I came from and sometimes how I respond to situations and I question why would God want someone like me who sometimes cannot behave properly. My call came through a series of dreams.Before I left my native country to come to America, I had dreams as soon as I arrived in the US. The dreams or what I initially thought were nightmares began to become more specific and very detailed. Then I came to New York and I began having encounters with Homeless people, and I was terribly afraid of them, and in the beginning would tell them to go away, I could not help them. One man told me I was a preacher and I looked at him like he was out of his mind, I was still very much in the world and was planning on staying there, thank you very much! As time has gone on, I love them, I love them so very very much, and more than anything I want to see them whole, it is the single most heartbreaking thing in life to see a man or woman laying filthy in the street, whilst everyone walks by and does not consider their journey. I don't know if this constitutes a call or a sincere compassion, I am struggling, with feeling good enough. And I am struggling in seminary. everyone seems so intelligent and together....keep me in prayer I am here at 3.54am on a friday morning and I am reading your articles and I am really impressed with the honesty and clarity of each one. I am a female seminary student 1st year 2nd semester, I am a single mother also of a 13 year old and a 22 year old, going through all kinds of craziness trying to stay sane. In one of my classes I had to write about my call to ministry and at times I doubt,because I look at myself and where I came from and sometimes how I respond to situations and I question why would God want someone like me who sometimes cannot behave properly.

My call came through a series of dreams.Before I left my native country to come to America, I had dreams as soon as I arrived in the US. The dreams or what I initially thought were nightmares began to become more specific and very detailed. Then I came to New York and I began having encounters with Homeless people, and I was terribly afraid of them, and in the beginning would tell them to go away, I could not help them. One man told me I was a preacher and I looked at him like he was out of his mind, I was still very much in the world and was planning on staying there, thank you very much! As time has gone on, I love them, I love them so very very much, and more than anything I want to see them whole, it is the single most heartbreaking thing in life to see a man or woman laying filthy in the street, whilst everyone walks by and does not consider their journey. I don’t know if this constitutes a call or a sincere compassion, I am struggling, with feeling good enough. And I am struggling in seminary. everyone seems so intelligent and together….keep me in prayer

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